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Humanitarian goods delayed, CARITAS says

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    Trucks carrying humanitarian goods took five days to reach Bissau from the Senegal border, OCHA quotes CARITAS as saying.

    The delay was attributed to demands for tax payment and paperwork as well as the re-establishment of checkpoints on the road linking Senegal to Bissau. The checkpoints are at Bambadinca, some 80 km from Bissau, and between Banana and Gabu about 100 to 150 km from Bissau.

    In a related development, CARITAS discovered only this week that five containers had arrived in the port of Bissau including one that had been there since May.

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