Liberia: UN Team Arrives to Jump-Start Relief Efforts

12 August 2003

A senior United Nations relief official led an 11-person team into the Liberian capital Monrovia today to accelerate efforts to get desperately needed food and clean water to thousands of people crowding the capital's streets.

Delivering food to needy people is the top humanitarian priority, and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it hoped to immediately resume full-scale distribution in the capital once access to its warehouse has been granted by the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) rebels who control it.

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