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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed some 360 mt of food aid to communities in the south and east of Sierra Leone, an emergency report dated 26 May said.
In the southern town of Bo, some 177 mt of food was delivered to 13,102 people in need while in the eastern town of Kenema 19,482 people received some 192 mt, WFP reported. The Bo office said that its activities had now returned to the same levels reached before the current crisis, sparked by the detention of up to 500 UN peacekeepers by rebel forces. However, in Kenema security concerns were still hindering activities outside the town, WFP said.
WFP also distributed food to displaced people in Freetown while some 1,664 people participating in a food-for-work road repairs project between Freetown and Loko Massama have received some 44 mt of food, the report said.
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