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Over 3,500 returnees repatriated to Kambia

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    More than 3,500 Sierra Leonean returnees have finally been repatriated to their place of origin, in Kambia district northwest Sierra Leone. "Their return home means that peace has really returned to Sierra Leone," a UNHCR press release on Thursday quoted a woman from the hosting village in Lungi's Lokomasama Chiefdom, north of the capital Freetown as saying.

    United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Peter Chaveas, accompanied UNHCR's Representative Arnauld Akodjenou to Lokomasama Chiefdom on Thursday to witness the relocation exercise, the release said.

    Both Chaveas and Akodjenou acknowledged the support and participation of Paramount Chief Bai Sama Lamina Sama of the host Lokomasama Chiefdom. According to UNHCR, Sama adopted the agency's initiative to create a host community in his chiefdom.

    A total of 7,500 returnees are to be transported to Kambia District [in the northwest] in the near future, UNHCR said in a statement last week.

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