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Medical supplies planned for Kenema

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    UN agencies and NGOs, which met in Guinea on Saturday, have agreed to deliver more medical supplies to Sierra Leone’s eastern city of Kenema, UNICEF said. At the meeting, called to plan a humanitarian aid assessment mission to the town’s 50,000 IDPs, they agreed to use their own aircraft to transport supplies. UNICEF said USAID had indicated interest in paying some of the transport costs.

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