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Last volunteers for repatriation return from Sierra Leone

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    A three-day operation to repatriate the last Liberians who had volunteered to go back home from Sierra Leone was completed on Sunday, the UNHCR reported on Tuesday.

    Some 213 refugees were airlifted from the towns of Bo in the south and Kenema in the east as well as Freetown. More than 1,800 of the approximately 8,000 Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone have elected to return home. Most did so after fighting in the capital in January 1999 cut off aid to refugee sites, according to UNHCR.

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