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Agencies assess regroupment sites

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    Meanwhile, between 11,000 and 13,000 people had left the regroupment camps during the first phase of the dismantlement programme, the UN official said. Three camps had so far been closed and three others partially dismantled, he said. An estimated 320,000 people remain in the province's camps under precarious humanitarian conditions. Inter-agency missions to
    several regroupment sites were taking place this week to assess current needs, and the results would enable the humanitarian community to develop a common position on the issue, the official said. The assessment teams were also looking at human rights issues in the sites, he added.

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