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Bo IDPs reject maize meal

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    Internally displaced persons at camps in the southern city of Bo have threatened to go on hunger strike unless they are given bulgur wheat rather than the maize meal being provided by the World Food Programme, OCHA said in its situation report of 7-22 December.

    The 26,006 beneficiaries say they are unable to afford the resources with which to cook the maize. WFP distributed 304 mt of food to these people out of which 198 mt went to 14,586 IDPs in the Mandu camp.

    Meanwhile, WFP is distributing a one-month ration to over 54,000 IDPs in Freetown and the 1,500 refugee returnees at the Waterloo transit centre in the west of the country, OCHA said. It added that Catholic Relief Services had distributed a 15-day ration to 28 Non-Formal Primary Education centres catering for 5,100 youths in the Western area.

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