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GOAL managing camp for 13,500 IDPs

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    The non-governmental organization GOAL has built and now manages a camp on the outskirts of Freetown for at least 13,5000 internally displaced people, it said on Monday.

    Most of these people were forced from their homes during fighting in January 1999 and fled to Freetown, GOAL said. However, there has been an increase in new arrivals from rebel-held areas and neighbouring countries in recent months.

    GOAL said it was concerned about the possibility of an escalation of hostilities which could cause more refugees to return spontaneously to the country.

    The NGO said 9,000 people had arrived in the Lungi region near Freetown from the northern area of Kambia and from camps in southern Guinea. It said “the unexpected rise in the number of IDPs since May has put a major strain on the food pipeline.”

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