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Plans to expand humanitarian activities

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    In the coming weeks aid agencies will intensify efforts to gain regular access to rebel-controlled areas, particularly Kono and Kailahun districts in eastern Sierra Leone and Kambia District in the north-west.

    At present humanitarian activities in these areas are limited. In Kailahun District MSF-France is providing medical services. Save the Children Fund (SCF) is supporting the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration camp at Daru, OCHA said. MSF-Holland is providing medical care in some parts of Kambia District and efforts are underway to expand the range of
    activities in these locations.

    Road and other infrastructural repair is a key part of gaining regular access to rebel-controlled areas, OCHA said. The humanitarian community is reviewing its preparedness to care for released prisoners of war. The Waterloo transit camp on the outskirts of Freetown is now ready to cater for 500 POWs and another site has been identified by the government in
    Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone.

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