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WFP delivers food to 13,500 Liberians

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    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that 13,500 Liberian refugees at the Kouankan camp near N’Zerekore received food during its latest round of emergency food deliveries in southeastern Guinea.

    A statement issued by the UN agency said the beneficiaries were among more than 72,000 Sierra Leonean and Liberian refugees in Guinea currently receiving WFP food aid. About 50,000 of them are in N’Zerekore, some 800 km southeast of the capital, Conakry, the statement said.

    WFP also said it was providing food for an estimated 190,000 internally displaced Guineans, most of them in Kindia, Faranah and Kankan regions.

    It said that despite the restoration of calm since intense fighting earlier in the year, “the security situation in N’Zerekore remains fragile and refugees should soon be relocated to Kola, a new camp, 35 km north”.

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