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    The World Food Programme (WFP) concluded last week the distribution of 66 mt of food to 5,729 internally displaced people in camps in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, and an additional 21 mt to 1,856 IDPs around the towns of Bo and Mandu, WFP said in its last report, covering 25-29 June.
    WFP also provided 148 mt as resettlement packages to 5,114 IDPs who are expecting to resettle in Masiaka, 50 km west of Freetown.
    Another 235 IDPs who had been residing in Port Loko were given two-month food rations and helped to return to their areas of origin.

    Some 24,057 people in Port Loko and the Western Area were provided with food aid totalling 303 mt, WFP said, while 117 mt went to some 2,698 farming families who also received tools and seeds from NGOs, including the International Committee of the Red Cross. The agency also delivered food to school canteens in Lungi, Kenema, Pujehun and surrounding areas.

    WFP however reported that it urgently needed 628 mt of cereal and corn soy blend to meet the projected requirements of therapeutic and school feeding centres up to December. WFP has appealed to donors for funds to cover an expected shortfall in food aid for refugees and IDPs in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

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