After only five months since the resumption of the voluntary repatriation process, the Government of Liberia and UNHCR have assisted over 16,000 Ivorian refugees to return home. A high level mission from the Government of Cote d’Ivoire took place from 3 to 6 May in Liberia, led by the Ivorian Minist...

The Ivorian Minister of Solidarity, Social Cohesion and Compensation, Mariatou Kone and the Executive Director of the Liberia Refugee, Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRC), AblaGadegbeku Williams, along with the UNHCR Country Representative to Ivory Coast have called on Ivorian refugees i...

Nimba — LRRRC boss Cllr. AblaGadegbeku Williams and Ivorian Minster MariatuKone surrounded by others Liberian and Ivorian officials The Ivorian Minister of Solidarity, Social Cohesion and Compensation Madam MariatuKone and the Executive Director of the Liberia Refugee, Repatriation and Resettlement...

Le comité d’accueil des réfugiés ivoiriens rentrant de Guinée inspecte le pont de fortune sur la rivière frontière naturelle entre les deux pays en attendant l’arrivée du convoi (Sipilou 27 sept. 2016) Man, 28 sept (AIP) –Des réfugiés ivoiriens en Guinée-Conakry, candidats au retour volontaire d’exi...

Sécurité/ SAARA: formation des élèves policiers - Décembre 2016

Fisherman Joseph regains his smile as he gets ready to rejoin his family in Liberia. CONAKRY, Guinea, May 15 (UNHCR) – During almost 20 years of exile in Guinea, Joseph did not know if his family was alive or dead. When he recently found out by chance that they had survived the attack that cause...

In fulfilment of a promise made during the Ivorian refugee influx into Liberia more than a year ago, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has donated six brand new vehicles, including two ambulances and four Toyota LC 200 Land Cruisers, to Liberia’s border counties hosting Ivori...

SACLEPEA REFUGEE CAMP, Liberia, May 14 (UNHCR) – Papa Tokpa Sadia, 45, is all smiles as he picks up a snail and explains how it is extracted from its shell to prepare a meal. "Snail meat is very delicious and nutritious," says the Ivorian, who is learning how to rear and harvest the tasty gastrop...

MONROVIA, Liberia, July 31 (UNHCR) – A month after their refugee status ended, more than 1,600 Liberians have returned home in the single-largest movements in recent years. Last Friday, 1,566 Liberians were brought home on buses and barges from neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire. Another 79 were flown f...

MONROVIA, Liberia, January 4 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has completed its successful repatriation of more than 155,000 Liberians, 23 years after the start of the civil war in their homeland that made them into refugees. The final 724 Liberians were helped home from Guinea on the last weekend...