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    Meanwhile the Paris based food agency, Action Contre La Faim (ACF), says it has sent some 1,000 mt of food aid to Sierra Leone. Some 500 mt of wheat semolina is already in the agency’s Freetown warehouse. Another 175 mt of split peas as well as 315 mt of lentils is in Conakry, Guinea, awaiting shipment to Freetown, an ACF spokesman in Freetown told IRIN on Thursday. Also, the United States-based relief and development agency, CARE, said in a report on Wednesday it had delivered 800 mt of food to the southern interior of Sierra Leone since 29 April. The food is sufficient to meet the needs of 118,000 internally displaced people for two weeks in the towns of Bo and Moyamba in the Southern Province, CARE said.

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