UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi)

Updates on conflicts and news from throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

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August 24

  • Liberia: Out-of-Court Justice

    "We don't get much sleep now because there are people calling night and day," says Jesco Davis, who represents the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), a local NGO... Read more »



July 24

  • Cote d'Ivoire: Liberian Refugees' Future Uncertain

    In July 2012 a cessation clause came into force, stripping the remaining Liberians of their refugee status as the UN declared that it has been six years since the conflict ended,... Read more »



July 19



June 27

  • Liberia: Tracking Down Mercenaries

    More than a year after the end of the conflict in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire, the Liberian government has pledged to deal once and for all with longstanding complaints of its... Read more »



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September 6, 2011

  • Cote d'Ivoire: Shoring Up Border Security

    With fear still rife among the Ivoirian refugees remaining in eastern Liberia, NGO the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), which is managing refugee camps in Grand Gedeh County, is... Read more »



August 8, 2011



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August 4, 2011

  • Liberia: Refugees Look for Long-Term Solutions [analysis]

    As refugees look set to stay in eastern Liberia for some time to come, they are starting to lay the foundations of new lives in their temporary home, while aid agencies and donors... Read more »



July 18, 2011

  • Liberia: Debunking Diabetes Myths

    Lucy Dollokieh, a mother of four from Liberia's Nimba County, developed severe pains when urinating and thought she had been cursed by a witch, but when a volunteer came to her... Read more »



June 10, 2011



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May 13, 2011

  • Cote d'Ivoire: Fighting Rumours With Fact

    Thousands of refugees in eastern Liberia want to know what has happened to their family members, about the state of their villages, and whether it is safe to go home, said an April... Read more »



April 14, 2011

  • Cote d'Ivoire: Refugees Report Murder, Rape, Abuse

    Ivoirians who have fled across the border to Liberia have reported incidents of rape, sexual abuse and murder to NGOs and human rights groups working in Grand Geddeh and Nimba... Read more »



April 7, 2011

  • Cote d'Ivoire: Ivoirian Refugees Hard to Reach

    Ivoirians who have fled to eastern and southeastern Liberia are choosing to settle in villages rather than camps and transit centres, making them harder to help, say NGO workers. Read more »



January 14, 2011

  • Cote d'Ivoire: Planning for the Refugee Influx

    Ivoirians are still crossing from the far west of Côte d'Ivoire into Liberia at a rate of 400 to 600 a day, according to an "initial refugee assessment" issued by the UN... Read more »



December 31, 2010

  • Cote d'Ivoire: Back to Square One?

    NGOs working in northeastern Liberia say many of the 30,000 refugees arriving from neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire are reporting widespread violence and intimidation from both... Read more »

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