Evacuation of Parrot’s Beak almost completed

The evacuation of tens of thousands of refugees from the Parrot’s Beak in southern Guinea is nearing completion, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski said on Friday. He said about 2,000 refugees remaining in small groups in camps and villages inside the Beak, an insecure area wedged into Sierra Leone, would be transferred over the next two days to the Katkama transit camp to the north. Most camps in the area are now empty and have been torched by local villagers, UNHCR said. So far, 12,000 refugees have been evacuated from camps in the Parrot’s Beak since the start of the UNHCR-organised operation on 2 May.