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New political order pulling Liberian refugees home
9 Feb 2006 Heeding the call of their new president to return and help rebuild the country, Liberian refugees have been streaming home from Ghana, Nigeria, and neighbouring Sierra Leone and Guinea with UNHCR assistance to embrace the new peace. -
UNHCR expands activities to help Liberian IDPs realise their goal of a new school
2 Feb 2006 A new school rising in the Liberian village of Balama shows both the importance of letting communities decide their own priorities and UNHCR's increasing efforts to give the same reintegration help to internally displaced people as it gives to refugees. -
Largest UNHCR convoy since Liberian refugees began returning home
30 Jan 2006 The largest convoy of refugees to return to Liberia since the UN refugee agency's repatriation operation began in 2004 has arrived home in the wake of this month's inauguration of the new democratically elected president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. -
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. -
50 years on in Germany, Eastern Europe's displaced still remember UNHCR
5 Jan 2006 After the end of World War II, millions of people found themselves living outside their own country, including many slave labourers from Eastern Europe taken to Germany by the Nazis. One of UNHCR's first programmes was to provide housing and education for the most vulnerable of these uprooted people. Some 50 years later, the benefits of that programme are still being felt. -
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.