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New transit centre receives its first refugees

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    A new UNHCR transit centre at Mamou, Guinea, received its first group of 250 refugees en route to their home country, Sierra Leone, on Sunday, UNHCR-Guinea reported in its weekly update for 1-7 January. The camp is some 200 km northeast of the capital, Conakry.

    Between December 2000 and 4 January 2001, about 31,700 Sierra Leoneans returned home with assistance from UNHCR and its partners, including the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

    Meanwhile, on 4 January UNHCR registered 31 refugees, mainly women and children, who had recently arrived from Liberia at Kola camp in southern Guinea. The new arrivals said they had fled fighting in Lofa County, northern Liberia. With the help of Liberian government soldiers, they went to Monrovia where, they said, peace was precarious. They then travelled to Guinea via the northeastern Liberian county of Nimba.

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