Article: UN refugee agency launches verification exercise in Sierra Leone

UN refugee agency launches verification exercise in Sierra Leone

LAGOS, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The UN refugee agency said Thursday it has started a one-month exercise in Sierra Leone's camps to update refugee numbers in the tiny west African country amid the ongoing repatriation to neighboring Liberia.

The exercise, which involves all eight camps in Sierra Leone, kicked off early this week as more than 400 trained verifiers checked the photographs on ration cards against the refugees in person, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said in a ...

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