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UNHCR to relocate IDPs, opens health centres

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    The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sierra Leone plans to relocate over 7,000 internally displaced Sierra Leoneans from Port Loko District to their place of origin in the first week of December, the agency said in its latest information bulletin.

    The 7,533 IDPs are slated to leave the temporary camps where they have been living in the town of Lokomasama to return home to Kambia District, north of Port Loko. One of the main concerns of the refugees, UNHCR said, was the education of their children.

    In Kailahun District where disarmament of illegal fighting forces is currently underway, the UN refugee agency recently opened three new health clinics to serve the more vulnerable of the refugees and returnee population. The clinics were opened in Gehun, Mobai and Nyandahun villages.

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