The Bank organized a two-day forum in Abidjan to explore, among other issues, how to better support countries affected by displacements of populations. ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE, 12 January 2017 (UNHCR) – The UN Refugee Agency has called for greater solidarity with forcibly displaced populations in ...

THE 50th ORDINARY SUMMIT OF THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS) Abuja, 17 December 2016 Speech by Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) Your Excellency Madam...

DAKAR, SENEGAL, 27 October 2016 (UNHCR) – Significant progress has been made to eradicate statelessness around the world, but ongoing conflicts are putting those advances at risk. Marking the second anniversary of the global #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, ...

The UNHCR and ECOWAS recently signed an MoU to improve the protection environment for stateless persons. Pierre is eighteen years old. He was born to Burkinabe parents in Ghana. He was not registered at birth and neither were his parents. An orphan with no nationality, Pierre is stateless. Whi...

Ivorian refugee community health workers courageously battled Ebola and other threats in exile. LITTLE WLEBO CAMP, Liberia, June 2 (UNHCR) – When a deadly Ebola outbreak spread across Liberia killing thousands and sickening many more, Ivorian refugee health worker Jocelyn Konet did not hesitate: Do...

After only five months since the resumption of the voluntary repatriation process, the Government of Liberia and UNHCR have assisted over 16,000 Ivorian refugees to return home. A high level mission from the Government of Cote d’Ivoire took place from 3 to 6 May in Liberia, led by the Ivorian Minist...

The Ivorian Minister of Solidarity, Social Cohesion and Compensation, Mariatou Kone and the Executive Director of the Liberia Refugee, Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRC), AblaGadegbeku Williams, along with the UNHCR Country Representative to Ivory Coast have called on Ivorian refugees i...

Nimba — LRRRC boss Cllr. AblaGadegbeku Williams and Ivorian Minster MariatuKone surrounded by others Liberian and Ivorian officials The Ivorian Minister of Solidarity, Social Cohesion and Compensation Madam MariatuKone and the Executive Director of the Liberia Refugee, Repatriation and Resettlement...

Screams of joy invaded the room. Aiwon Marie Gbatu, 19, could not believe the news she had just received; she was finally granted the scholarship she had wished for, making it possible for her to go the university and make her dreams of becoming a doctor true. Aiwon, who begins her programme studyin...

It was a day in the city of Monrovia. Busy streets and what seems to be hundreds of women and men standing at each side of the road looking for any means of transportation. However, it is not a regular day; today, Monrovia gathers to celebrate the International Women’s Day. The United Nations beg...