The News Review:
- Nepal peacekeepers to transfer to Haiti from Sierra Leone.
- Sierra Leone university lecturers end strike.
- LIBERIA: Security before refugee resettlement – Lubbers
Nepal peacekeepers to transfer to Haiti from Sierra Leone.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 4, 2004
Nepal peacekeepers to transfer to Haiti from Sierra Leone. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (May, 2004).
Sierra Leone university lecturers end strike.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 4, 2004
Sierra Leone university lecturers end strike. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (May, 2004).
LIBERIA: Security before refugee resettlement – Lubbers
IRINnews.org – May 4, 2004
We will be deploying troops in other parts of southeastern Liberia where there are no peacekeepers, we will also extend the DDR [Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reconciliation] exercise there,â Opande said. At Perry Town camp, on the western outskirts of Monrovia, refugees who had returned home spontaneously read out a statement to the former Dutch prime minister protesting at their treatment in neighbouring Sierra Leone. âWe Liberians, seeking refuge in Sierra Leone, were not treated humanely in accordance with international law,â they said. The refugees, who had returned voluntarily since the signing of a peace deal in Liberia in August 2003 voiced concern for the fellow refugees they had left behind. âWe call for the speedy repatriation of our suffering brothers and sisters in Sierra Leone beginning May,â their statement continued. However, Lubbers reiterated that the UNHCRâs official resettlement programme for 350,000 Liberian refugees scattered across West Africa would not begin until October, once the rainy season is over. Last week, the UNHCR office in Monrovia said about 50,000 Liberian refugees had spontaneously returned home from Guinea and Sierra Leone since the August peace agreement ended 14 years of civil war.