A TRUCK convoy arrived in Kolomba, a southeast Guinean town Wednesday to begin moving some 50_000 refugees from neighbouring Sierra Leone to a safer place in central Guinea, more remote from a combat zone. The refugees were assembled in a salient of Guinea territory known as the Parrot’s Beak, adjacent to Sierra Leone, where they have been exposed for eight months to clashes between Guinean troops and insurgents. They had refused to move as scheduled on Monday because they did not want to walk a distance of 120km to their next transhipment point. – AFP
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