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Southern IDPs begin returning home

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    A ship chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun ferrying internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Liberia to their home areas, ICRC reported in its latest news bulletin, issued this week. It said the ship began taking on board a first batch of 288 IDPs bound for the Greenville area in the southeast. It is scheduled to make several trips from Monrovia to Greenville and Harper - on the border with Cote d'Ivoire - to repatriate the some 2,600 returnees registered in and around Monrovia. Thousands of Liberians were displaced by an eight-year war that started in 1989. According to the ICRC, Monrovia hosts almost 3,000 IDPs from southern Liberia who, for nearly a decade, were unable to return home because of impassable or dangerous roads.

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