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Missing UNHCR worker freed

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    A UNHCR radio operator, Joseph Loua, was freed in Liberia on Monday, 47 days after he was abducted by gunmen in the town of Guekedou in southern Guinea, UNHCR reported. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) officials found Loua in Voinjama, near Liberia's border with Guinea, and took him to Monrovia. ICRC workers described him as being in a good shape.

    Loua, a father of five and a resident of Guekedou, was reportedly taken from UNHCR's Guekedou office on 6 December by unidentified gunmen as he tried to send a radio message about an attack on the town. An eyewitness saw him being taken toward the Liberian border carrying what seemed to be radio equipment.

    In September, a UNHCR worker was killed and another abducted in the town of Macenta during an armed attack. The abducted woman was later released, also in Liberia.

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