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Liberian refugee women stitch together new future after Angelina Jolie skills course
23 Feb 2006 There was an atmosphere of joy and jubilation in Largo refugee camp last week when 50 Liberian refugee women each received a sewing machine after completing a sewing skills course, kindly funded by UNHCR's Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie. Their new skills will help the refugees earn a living when they finally return home. -
Liberia: UNHCR to promote voluntary repatriation following positive changes
17 Feb 2006 -
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. -
Liberia: New president encourages return
17 Jan 2006 -
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.