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UNHCR to start informing Liberian refugees on election process
20 Apr 2005 The UN refugee agency has welcomed the Liberian authorities' decision to extend by two weeks the voter registration period for Liberian refugees returning after May 21. An information campaign on election procedures will target Liberians displaced in the country and in the region. -
Liberian youths launch platform against gender violence
12 Apr 2005 The UN refugee agency has launched "Saturday theatre", a project to combat sexual and gender-based violence through interactive performances by returnees, youth groups and the local community in Liberia's Gbarpolu county. -
Crafting a future in Sierra Leone
11 Apr 2005 Sixty-one Liberian refugees and members of the host community in Kissy Town have graduated from a six-month programme to train them in crafts like carpentry, catering, gara tie-dyeing, soap-making and agriculture - skills that will improve their livelihood options wherever they go. -
Ivorian peace could pave way home for 15,000 refugees
7 Apr 2005 The UN refugee agency has welcomed the decision by Ivorian parties to end the war in Côte d'Ivoire, a move that could help stabilise the region and pave the way home for some 15,000 Ivorian refugees. -
Counting Liberia's "other" refugees
4 Apr 2005 As thousands of Liberian refugees return home after the civil war, refugees in Liberia who hail from West Africa and beyond get ready to stand and be counted in a registration campaign to improve assistance and protection in exile. -
Liberian assisted returns cross 10,000 mark
30 Mar 2005 More than 10,000 Liberian refugees have gone home with UNHCR assistance in the last six months. Kollie Barco, who returned on the first convoy in October last year, hammers home the role of returnees in rebuilding Liberia. -
Empowering Ivorian refugees for eventual return
24 Mar 2005 Life is not easy for thousands of Ivorian refugees in war-torn Harper in Liberia. Infrastructure has been destroyed, and schools and health facilities are in short supply. UNHCR and its partners are helping them and their local hosts become more self-reliant through community empowerment projects. -
Biggest convoy to date heads back to Lofa county, Liberia
21 Mar 2005 More than 300 Liberian refugees have returned in the first and biggest UNHCR convoy from Sierra Leone to Lofa county, Liberia's largest area of return. The journey will take five days until a more direct route is opened. -
UNHCR opens Liberia's first environment centre
16 Mar 2005 The UN refugee agency has opened the first environment centre in Liberia in a bid to ensure that mass refugee returns do not have a negative impact on an environmental already damaged by 14 years of civil war.