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Humanitarian workers released

Four Sierra Leonean aid workers missing since 21 July have been found, the NGO Christian Health Association of Sierra Leone (CHASL) reported on Tuesday. They were captured by “West Side dissidents between Mile 38 and Masiaka”, east of Freetown, on their way to the southern town of Mattru and released on Monday, Marion Morgan, executive director of CHASL said. The West Side Boys are a group comprising mainly former Sierra Leone Army soldiers.

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