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Thousands of Casamance displaced receive aid

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    Some 10,500 displaced people around Senegal's southern city of Ziguinchor received 83.5 mt of rice and millet from the ICRC and the Senegalese Red Cross between 11 and 17 May, the organisation said in its latest news report. The displaced persons fled their homes when government troops fought separatists of the Mouvement des forces democratique de Casamance on 29 and 30 April around Ziguinchor airport.

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