Aid package targets drinking water in Guinea's Forest Region

Nzerekore - The package envisages an increase in the number of people with access to drinking water in the region from 59 to 85 percent by 2011, with the main goal of reducing waterborne diseases like cholera and diarrhoea.

“There is a real need right now,” said Idrissa Souare, head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) N'Zérékoré office in the Forest Region. “It's really very worrying.”

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