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WEST AFRICA: IOM assists displaced migrants
ABIDJAN, 3 January 2003 (IRIN) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has continued its assistance to Guineans and other West Africans stranded in southeastern Guinea after fleeing western Cote d'Ivoire.
At a briefing on Friday, IOM spokesman Jean-Philippe Chauzy said an IOM convoy transporting some 393 Burkinabes arrived safely in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, on 1 January after a six-day bus journey across eastern Guinea and southern Mali.
On 31 December, another IOM convoy transporting 122 Malian nationals arrived in Mali, he said. A third group of 21 Senegalese left Lola, southeastern Guinea, with IOM assistance on 27 December and arrived in the Senegalese capital, Dakar on 31 December.
Chauzy said his organisation helped 24 Guineans to go from Nzerekore - also in southeastern Guinea - to their homes in Siguiri province in the northeast, and transported 469 others to the Guinean capital, Conakry, on 28 December. The return operations, he said, were made possible by contributions from the Finnish government.
Themes: (IRIN) Refugees/IDPs
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