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Fast track back to Sierra Leone raises hopes of complete repatriation by end 2004
7 Apr 2003 Hundreds of Sierra Leonean refugees went home over the weekend through a new direct route from central Guinea. This has sped up returns and raised hopes that the repatriation of Sierra Leonean refugees in the region can be completed by the end of next year. -
Thousands flee northern Liberia for Guinea; UNHCR starts transfer inland
2 Apr 2003 More than 7,000 refugees, mostly Liberians, have arrived in Guinea after fleeing fresh fighting in northern Liberia over the weekend. The UN refugee agency has started moving them away from the border region into existing camps and transit centres. -
Thousands of refugees caught in renewed fighting in eastern Liberia
27 Mar 2003 In the midst of fresh rebel fighting in eastern Liberia, the UN refugee agency has lost touch with some 5,000 Ivorian refugees and other West African nationals at its transit camp in Zwedru. -
UNHCR appeals for $29 million to help victims of Ivorian crisis
21 Mar 2003 The UN refugee agency has launched a revised appeal to help 163,000 people who could be affected by the Ivorian crisis this year. The fresh funds will go to building and rehabilitating camps in Liberia and Guinea, and life-saving solutions for Liberians remaining in Côte d'Ivoire, among other operations. -
UNHCR concerned about aid workers' disappearance in eastern Liberia
5 Mar 2003 The UN refugee agency is doing all it can to help locate three humanitarian workers from its partner organisation, the Adventist Relief and Development Agency, who went missing after recent rebel fighting in Toe Town, eastern Liberia. -
Thousands flee attack on transit camp in eastern Liberia
3 Mar 2003 The UN refugee agency has expressed grave concern after rebel fighting hit a transit centre in eastern Liberia's Toe Town, displacing some 2,500 recent arrivals from Côte d'Ivoire who had sought refuge from the Ivorian conflict. -
Get us out of Côte d'Ivoire, plead Liberian refugees
18 Feb 2003 A group of Liberian refugees have been demonstrating outside the UN refugee agency's office in Abidjan, pleading to be evacuated from a life of fear and harassment. Some have come from as far as western Côte d'Ivoire to make their voices heard. -
Liberian refugees in limbo in West Africa
14 Feb 2003 Liberian refugees are fleeing civil conflict at home and facing rising hostilities in Côte d'Ivoire. Some 1,800 have fled fighting in northern Liberia for Sierra Leone while tens of thousands are desperate to leave strife-torn Ivorian cities in the south and west. -
UNHCR could expand emergency repatriation from Ivorian south-west
4 Feb 2003 Having moved more than 1,500 Liberian refugees home from Tabou, the UN refugee agency is looking at repatriating others stranded in villages outside Tabou. Meanwhile, as tensions continue in Abidjan, displaced refugees are getting increasingly anxious and asking to be evacuated.