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UN expands international relief presence in Baghdad

United Nations relief agencies continued to expand their international operations in Iraq today, five days after returning from a war-imposed absence of six weeks, regaining the use of some offices, confronting the destruction of others, and ready to collaborate with American authorities to prevent duplication of humanitarian efforts.

UN relief agency demands security guarantees from Liberian government

With armed militia now setting their sights on relief camps and transit centres, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has called on the Government of Liberia to provide security guarantees before it will resume food distributions to refugees and internally-displaced people (IDPs) in camps near the capital, Monrovia.