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New president appeals for refugees to return to Liberia
16 Jan 2006 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was sworn in Monday as Liberia's president, becoming Africa's first elected female leader. The 67-year-old woman has vowed to restore stability to her country and is calling on Liberian refugees to return home. -
Liberian refugees hope election result will usher in new era
23 Nov 2005 The hopes of returning home for up to 230,000 Liberian refugees have been resting on the peaceful outcome of Liberia's presidential election run-off. So far so good: the final results were announced on Wednesday, with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf elected as Africa's first woman President with a comfortable 59.4 percent of the vote. -
A new beginning is always hard: Liberia's elections bring hope of return for thousands of refugees
12 Oct 2005 On Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of Liberians cast their vote in the first post-war elections. Included in the queues lining up to vote were refugees who had returned home, many still unbelieving that this day had finally come. -
Liberian refugees rebuild lives as first post-war elections get underway
11 Oct 2005 Liberians are going to the polls today (Tuesday) in the country's first elections since the end of the civil war in 2003. In the past two years, more than 400,000 displaced people and refugees have gone back to their homes in Liberia and are now trying to rebuild their lives. -
With the shooting over, Liberian students aim high
23 Sep 2005 Before it was destroyed by rampaging armed factions, Dolokelen Gboveh High School was the most prestigious government-run school in Liberia's Bong County. Now, with the help of the UN refugee agency and its partners, the school has risen from the ashes and its students are once again aiming for a better future. -
Ivorian refugees find novel ways to survive and thrive in Liberia
18 Aug 2005 Almost three years after fighting started in Côte d'Ivoire, thousands of Ivorian refugees who fled to eastern Liberia have either integrated locally or are finding novel ways to survive in the camps, while helping each other and keeping their morale high. -
People power rules for Liberian returnee community
11 Aug 2005 Where there's cooperation, development will follow, as the residents of Boiwen town are finding out. Hundreds of these internally displaced people who returned home to Bomi county in western Liberia are rebuilding their lives through a grassroots, community approach. -
Lack of funds threatens UNHCR assistance to Togolese refugees
4 Aug 2005 Despite repeated requests for funds, the UN refugee agency still faces a serious shortfall in resources available to help Togolese refugees in Benin and Ghana. Already, UNHCR has had to put on hold the assistance it is giving the refugees, even as the numbers continue to grow. -
UNHCR team finds factors that may muddy issue of return to Liberia
25 Jul 2005 A UNHCR Sierra Leone team visiting Liberia's Lofa county to find out how returnees are coping has found that while most seem happy to be home, some are facing obstacles like a shortage of physical and social infrastructure and services.