The Long Journey Home: "Unprecedented Returns"--Cautious Optimism.... .
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Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 8Environment. Publisher: IRIN News Service, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Internally displaced persons | Refugees | Repatriation | United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "'Life has to continue, and the war is over and behind us,' said Stephen Zizi, owner of a popular bar in Voinjama, Liberia, expressing the optimism and resolve of tens of thousands of spontaneous refugees flowing back into Liberia across the nearby Guinean border. Like eight of Liberia's other 15 counties, Lofa has not been declared safe for the country's 600,000 refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return to, but town officials and the local office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have reported large numbers of spontaneous returnees in the county's main towns." (IRIN NEWS SERVICE) This article reveals that the refugee population is declining worldwide and addresses the "challenges that face post-conflict countries like Angola, Sierra Leone and Liberia" in reintegrating returnees.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Long Journey Home: "Unprecedented Returns"--Cautious Optimism..., Feb. 2005; pp. n.p..
"'Life has to continue, and the war is over and behind us,' said Stephen Zizi, owner of a popular bar in Voinjama, Liberia, expressing the optimism and resolve of tens of thousands of spontaneous refugees flowing back into Liberia across the nearby Guinean border. Like eight of Liberia's other 15 counties, Lofa has not been declared safe for the country's 600,000 refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return to, but town officials and the local office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have reported large numbers of spontaneous returnees in the county's main towns." (IRIN NEWS SERVICE) This article reveals that the refugee population is declining worldwide and addresses the "challenges that face post-conflict countries like Angola, Sierra Leone and Liberia" in reintegrating returnees.
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