By Mafanta Kromah, mafanta.kromah@gmail.com0880637357 The UNHCR continues to intensify efforts to end and prevent statelessness. Statelessness, in this context, is a situation in which a person is without nationality or citizenship; something UNHCR describes as human rights violation. Addressin...

Following the fifth technical meeting of the Tri-partite Commission on the Voluntary Repatriation of Ivorian refugees held on 9th and 10th December 2015 in Monrovia, the Governments of Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire and the UNHCR have agreed to resume the voluntary repatriation process. The Acting Minist...

Prollo, Côte d'Ivoire — The UN Refugee Agency has resumed the voluntary repatriation of tens of thousands of Ivorian refugees from Liberia, after a pause of more than a year because land borders were closed to prevent the spread of a deadly Ebola outbreak. Some 11,000 of the 38,000 Ivorian refuge...

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said Friday that two convoys carrying 645 Ivorian refugees have begun their journeys home from two Liberian camps where they lived for the past few years. The agency said two more convoys are planned by the end of the year. Some 300,000 people fled Ivory ...

The governments of Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resumed Friday (18 Dec) the voluntary repatriation of tens of thousands of Ivorian refugees from Liberia, which had been interrupted for more than a year by the deadly Ebola outbreak. Some 11...

(UNHCR) resumed Friday the voluntary repatriation of tens of thousands of Ivorian refugees The governments of Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resumed Friday the voluntary repatriation of tens of thousands of Ivorian refugees from Liberia, which...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced this week that the repatriation of Ivorian refugees in Liberia has been restarted. Repatriation activity was halted as a result of the Ebola outbreak that engulfed the country. Adrian Edwards, spokesperson for the UNHCR, said t...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or UNHCR announced here it has deployed the third and fourth voluntary repatriation convoys planned before end of 2015. In a press release issued Tuesday, 22 December UNHCE says one convoy, carrying 246 people, set off from the Little Wlebo refuge...

Quatre (4) convois du Haut commissariat des réfugiés (Hcr) ramèneront en Côte d’Ivoire plus de mille Ivoiriens qui se sont réfugiés au Liberia. Dans un communiqué de presse qu’elle nous a fait parvenir samedi dernier, le Haut commissariat des réfugiés annonce le retour volontaire de réfugiés ivo...

Après une période de suspension, les opérations de rapatriement volontaire des réfugiés ivoiriens reprennent ce 18 décembre avec un premier convoi en provenance du Libéria. A la faveur de la crise post-électorale que la Côte d’Ivoire a vécue au lendemain de l’élection présidentielle de 2010, 300....