U.N. Moving 50,000 From Border Camps
From Times Wire Reports
The United Nations refugee agency began trucking an estimated 50,000 refugees away from Guinea’s southern border, where they are threatened by frontier fighting in West Africa.
The refugees, from Sierra Leone and Liberia, fled civil wars in their homelands in the 1990s for the relative safety of Guinea but have been caught up in a widening conflict around the diamond fields where the three countries’ borders meet.
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