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UNHCR to double number of Sierra Leone refugees returning home
11 Dec 2001 The number of Sierra Leone refugees in Guinea UNHCR is helping to return home will double to 500 persons a week following appeals from the refugees themselves that the repatriation process be speeded up. -
The first of thousands of Sierra Leone refugees begin returning home
7 Dec 2001 The second phase of an operation to return thousands of civilians to their original homes gets underway. -
Sierra Leone refugees return to their homes
27 Nov 2001 Thousands of refugees from Guinea will return to their original homes in Sierra Leone starting in December. -
Making way for more refugees
10 Aug 2001 Returning refugees in three transit centres in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown are being asked to leave the premises to accommodate expected new arrivals. -
Month-long Liberian boat-people saga ends in Nigeria
27 Jun 2001 A Swedish-registered ship docked at the Nigerian port of Lagos on Tuesday nearly a month after it wandered the West African seas and three countries refused asylum to its 156 mostly Liberian passengers.