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ECHO head travels to Guinea, Sierra Leone

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    The director of the European Commission’s humanitarian aid office, ECHO, Costanza Adinolfi, has been visiting Guinea and Sierra Leone to look at efforts being made by international NGOs and UN humanitarian agencies to help refugees, displaced persons and host communities, ECHO reported.

    Adinolfi arrived in Guinea on Saturday and travelled to Sierra Leone on
    Tuesday. On 13 and 14 May she visited the camps of Albadaria, Kountaya and
    Katkama in southern Guinea, which host Sierra Leonean refugees relocated
    from border areas plagued by instability in recent months. The camps were recently set up by the office of the UN High Commissione

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