After reports of a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Bumbuna, in northern Sierra Leone, and the arrival of 7,000 IDPs, the WFP led a three-day inter-agency food needs assessment mission to the area at the weekend.
The WFP said in its weekly emergency report for 18 August - the day on which the assessment mission began - that the entire north was presumed to be a critical food security zone. Only Bumbuna and Kabala were accessible, and only by air.
Government troops in Kabala, some 310 km north of Freetown, repulsed an RUF attack on Friday, a day after the WFP and other agencies delivered food aid to the town in UN helicopters. UMAMSIL believes the attackers were looking for food and ammunition.
Information Minister Julius Spencer told IRIN on Tuesday that the area was calm.
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