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Otunnu discusses war-affected children

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    Otunnu, who arrived in Freetown on Monday, has met President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, and officials of all ministries, ECOMOG, national NGOs and humanitarian agencies to discuss issues related to war-affected children, humanitarian sources told IRIN on Tuesday.

    He has visited projects for street children, an amputee rehabilitation centre and a family home care centre for former child soldiers in the Freetown area. The sources said he would go to the inland towns of Bo and Kenema on Wednesday to tour a camp for internally displaced people and visit a training programme for children.

    He is due to meet Kamajor (pro-government militia) leaders in Bo, some 175 km southeast of Freetown, to talk about the recruitment of child soldiers before travelling to Kenema, 70 km east of Bo, to inspect a therapeutic feeding centre.

    He will later visit a camp for Sierra Leonean refugees in the border town of Guekedou in Guinea.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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