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Relief supplies sent to Kambia

Meanwhile, in New York, United Nations spokesman Fred Eckhard said on Friday that UN humanitarian workers in Guinea supplied medicines and other relief items to IDPs in Sierra Leone’s Kambia area, some 60 km northeast of Freetown. He said UN agencies had undertaken a humanitarian assessment of the situation in Kambia, which is near the border with Guinea. A UN-HACU official in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, told IRIN today that some 13,000 IDPs registered in Kambia were in relatively good shape with sufficient food and drugs. However, the official said, shortages of water and sanitation facilities remained.

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