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Ex-combatants to receive food aid

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    WFP signed an agreement with the Sierra Leonean government on Tuesday to provide food aid valued at US $2.7 million, to ex-combatants over a period of six months, WFP Sierra Leone Representative Patrick Buckley told IRIN on Friday.

    “The food is available and we are currently working out the operational details with the NCDDR. Only those ex-combatants being demobilised in the centres will receive food aid,” he said.

    The NCDDR - National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Integration - is a state body.

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