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UNHCR repatriates 6,400 since mid-February

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    UNHCR has repatriated at least 6,400 Sierra Leoneans from Liberia since mid-February, the UN refugee agency reported on Tuesday. UNHCR said it was transporting an average of 2,400 persons in three convoys each week from refugee camps in Liberia to Sierra Leone.

    It has also transported 2,023 spontaneous returnees from the border with Liberia to locations within Sierra Leone. Moreover, it said, 3,352 Liberians fleeing the fighting in their country have been moved from the Sierra Leone border town of Jendema, to four settlements farther away. The camps were originally built for returning Sierra Leonean refugees.

    Heightened insecurity in northwestern Liberia in February displaced many Liberians and prompted some Sierra Leonean refugees to return home.

    [More details available on http://www.unhcr.ch]

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