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Most residents back in capital after fleeing last year’s fighting

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    Most of Bissau city’s 300,000 residents have returned home since fleeing heavy fighting in the capital last year, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported. It said they have been gradually returning since a peace agreement was signed in November putting an end to hostilities between government soldiers and an opposing military junta. Some 18,000 people living in 2,500 homes damaged in the fighting have been given non-food items such as tents, buckets, mats, jerrycans and soap.

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