Following the fifth technical meeting of the Tri-partite Commission on the Voluntary Repatriation of Ivorian refugees held on 9th and 10th December 2015 in Monrovia, the Governments of Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire and the UNHCR have agreed to resume the voluntary repatriation process. The Acting Minist...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or UNHCR announced here it has deployed the third and fourth voluntary repatriation convoys planned before end of 2015. In a press release issued Tuesday, 22 December UNHCE says one convoy, carrying 246 people, set off from the Little Wlebo refuge...

L’opération de rapatriement des réfugiés ivoiriens au Libéria du Haut-Commissariat aux réfugiés des Nations Unies (UNHCR) a repris, vendredi, avec le retour de 401 personnes. Cette opération avait été suspendue pendant plus d'un an à cause de l'épidémie due au virus Ebola qui sévissait au Libéria où...

Fisherman Joseph regains his smile as he gets ready to rejoin his family in Liberia. CONAKRY, Guinea, May 15 (UNHCR) – During almost 20 years of exile in Guinea, Joseph did not know if his family was alive or dead. When he recently found out by chance that they had survived the attack that cause...

SACLEPEA REFUGEE CAMP, Liberia, May 14 (UNHCR) – Papa Tokpa Sadia, 45, is all smiles as he picks up a snail and explains how it is extracted from its shell to prepare a meal. "Snail meat is very delicious and nutritious," says the Ivorian, who is learning how to rear and harvest the tasty gastrop...

MONROVIA, Liberia, January 4 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has completed its successful repatriation of more than 155,000 Liberians, 23 years after the start of the civil war in their homeland that made them into refugees. The final 724 Liberians were helped home from Guinea on the last weekend...

Liberia Celebrates World Refugee Day PTP REFUGEE CAMP, Liberia, 20 June, 2014 (UNHCR): Celebrating with the advocacy message, “1 family torn apart by war is too many”, Liberia joined countries around the world to mark World Refugee Day on Friday, 20 June with Ivorian refugees assuring to answer ...

Eight year old Justin Loga Zrango had one dream back in 2002: to become a doctor. He would wake up early; go to school and study hard to make his dream come true. Justin, sisters and a brother, mother and father lived in their farm in the Glanhoue village, region of Danane, in Cote d’Ivoire; a m...

Monrovia - On August 1, 2011, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed into law the National Identification Registry Act, which repealed PRC Decree # 65 establishing the National Identification card system. In May 2012, President Sirleaf established the NIR Board of Registrars, which includes the head...

Prollo, Côte d'Ivoire — The UN Refugee Agency has resumed the voluntary repatriation of tens of thousands of Ivorian refugees from Liberia, after a pause of more than a year because land borders were closed to prevent the spread of a deadly Ebola outbreak. Some 11,000 of the 38,000 Ivorian refuge...