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Hundreds displaced after fighting

[Nigeria] Children pick through the wreckage of the Bellview Airlines plane that crashed 40km north of Lagos on 22 October [Date picture taken: 10/24/2005] IRIN
Un enfant au milieu des débris de la carlingue d'un avion qui s'est récemment écrasé au Nigeria
Meanwhile hundreds of civilians who fled the fighting in Port Loko have arrived just outside Freetown, AFP said on Tuesday. They were "malnourished women and children seeking temporary shelter in need of food, medicine, blankets and mats," AFP reported an aid worker as saying.

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