Liberia: LRRC Frowns On Sierra Leonean Refugees

11 November 2019
press release

The Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) says its attention has been drawn to the call by some former Sierra Leonean refugees requesting the Commission and the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) to resettle them in a Third Country of Asylum.In a press release issued over the weekend, LRRRC states that there are no Sierra Leonean refugees in the borders of Liberia.

According to the release, in 2008 the cessation clause for Sierra Leonean refugees was invoked by the international community, following the return of peace and stability in Sierra Leone.

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