/ 13 March 2001

FIGHTING HAMPERS AID TO PARROT?S BEAK

FOOD deliveries to refugees and displaced people in Guinea’s troubled Parrot’s Beak region, suspended last week because of fresh fighting, remained impossible for lack of a passable road, the UN refugee agency said. Humanitarian aid to the area, where the UNHCR estimates a refugee presence of some 135_000, from Sierra Leone and Liberia, along with tens of thousands of displaced Guineans, resumed on February 26 after a six-month suspension because of persistent fighting on Guinea’s southern borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia. The new fighting last week halted deliveries to Parrot’s Beak. – AFP