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    A boat provided by Liberia’s government left Conakry on Tuesday for Monrovia with some 414 Liberians on board, UNHCR’s Peter Kessler told IRIN. Another batch is scheduled to leave later in the week.
    According to UNHCR, many of the Liberians had been sheltered at their country’s embassy in Conakry. UNHCR and its partners provided food aid, transport for the passengers and their baggage from the embassy to the port and medical assistance on board the vessel, which was scheduled to dock in Monrovia on Wednesday.
    Meanwhile, Sierra Leonean refugees continued to go back home from Guinea with assistance from UNHCR and transport provided by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). To date, nearly 4,000 Sierra Leoneans have returned from Conakry with UNHCR assistance, UNHCR reported on Tuesday.

    Starting later this week, when a second IOM-chartered ferry begins operating between Conakry and Freetown, an average 2,500 persons are expected to return to Freetown every week, UNHCR reported.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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