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WFP provides food for thousands of IDPs.

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    A generally stable security situation has enabled the World Food Programme (WFP) to complete the distribution of 165 mt of food to 14,742 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the region of Mamou, the agency has reported.
    [Mamou is about 190 km northeast of the Guinean capital, Conakry, and north of Guinea’s troubled border with Sierra Leone.]

    The beneficiaries, 89 percent of them women, children and elderly people, were the most vulnerable of 32,310 IDPs listed by local authorities, WFP said in a report on Friday.

    It also said that in collaboration with the NGO Premiere Urgence it had so far helped 16,000 displaced refugees and Guineans in the Parrot’s Beak, a piece of Guinean land that juts into eastern Sierra Leone.

    WFP field officers are to conduct a socio-economic survey of the border regions of Forecariah, Mamou and Faranah so that IDPs can be better identified for food distribution.

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