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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. -
Liberia: worrying developments
4 Mar 2003 -
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. -
West Africa: repatriation continues
25 Feb 2003 -
Worrying events in West Africa
18 Feb 2003 -
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. -
Côte d'Ivoire: Continued uncertainty
14 Feb 2003 -
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.