ROME, AUG. 19, 2003 (Zenit.org).- After several days of waiting and preparation, the team of Caritas International that will evaluate the situation in Liberia has arrived in Monrovia, sources of the Catholic charitable institution reported.
Officials brought enough health and medical material and medicines to treat 10,000 people for three months. The material has already been handed over to Caritas-Monrovia. The Dutch Caritas, CORDAID, sent humanitarian aid. The World Health Organization is helping to coordinate teams of relief workers.
Caritas-Liberia has provided a list of refugee shelters and other centers, including churches, schools, religious buildings and stadiums, which are caring for 18,200 internally displaced people. In Buchanan, Consolata Sisters are looking after 7,000 refugees in the mission's lands.
U.S.-based Catholic Relief Services has started to distribute food donated by the World Food Program, to 11,000 people.
Meanwhile, in Accra, Ghana, Liberia's interim government and two rebel groups signed a sweeping peace pact to end a four-year civil war, exactly a week after the forced resignation and exit of warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor, according to Agence France-Presse.
The agreement spelled out the parameters of a new caretaker government which is due to take power in October and continue in office until January 2006, AFP said.
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Caritas Emergency Team Arrives in Monrovia
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