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afrol News, 10 June - The troubled "Parrot's Beak" region, the Guinean border area with Sierra Leone and Liberia, is heading for calmer times, according to local humanitarian workers. Foreign militias that had terrorised the region are reported leaving. According to the latest emergency report by the World Food Programme (WFP), released on 8 June, a large number of Kamajor militiamen have left Guinea's Parrot's Beak region and returned to Sierra Leone leaving behind their families. The UN agency said improved security in the area, had made the resumption of food aid to displaced people possible on 1 June. The WFP says 5,383 internally displaced were helped within the "Parrot's Beak", in addition to some 4,500 refugees at the Boreah camp. "The total number of refugees assisted in Boreah during the first week of June was thus 13,500," WFP said. Armed rebels/terrorists backed by the Sierra Leonean RUF and the Liberian government entered Guinea towards the end of last year, causing a humanitarian crisis in the area, which housed a large number of Sierra Leonean and Liberian refugees. Also tens of thousands of Guinean local fled the brutal attacks, especially after the group managed to take and loot the local centre Guéckédou. Guinean troops since then have launched heavy attacks against the militia, also entering into Sierra Leone. Guinean backed militias also launched an offensive far into Liberia, which faces UN sanctions for its involvement in Guinea. Guinean troops thus slowly have regained control in the area.
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