Large numbers of Kamajor militiamen have left Guinea’s troubled “Parrot’s Beak” region and returned to Sierra Leone leaving behind their families, the World Food Programme said in its latest emergency report released on 8 June.
The agency said improved security in the area, had made the resumption of food aid to displaced people possible on 1 June. It said 5,383 of them were helped in the peak and 4,500 refugees at the Boreah camp.
“The total number of refugees assisted in Boreah during the first week of June was thus 13,500,” WFP said.
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