At the UNHCR transfer camp in Conakry, Guinea, 10-year-old Mabinity Tunkara, who was separated from her mother in 1994, speaks to an International Rescue Committee spokesperson before taking the next boat to Freetown, Liberia to finally be reunited with her mother.

Photographs for TIME by Anthony Suau
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