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Hundreds of migrants displaced

    ABIDJAN

    Hundreds of migrants from Burkina Faso were reluctant to return to their
    homes in Cote d’Ivoire on Thursday after fleeing, following a dispute with
    local villagers. A source at the International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC) told IRIN that about 1,500 people had been displaced from an area
    near the town of Grand Berebi, 417 km west of Abidjan. Those displaced
    include people originally from other parts of Cote d’Ivoire, he said.

    An Ivorian Red Cross doctor and a logistics officer travelled to the area
    earlier this week, a source from that organisation said.

    The displacement was caused by a conflict that broke out a little more
    than a week ago between Burkinabe immigrants and Krus, the ethnic group
    indigenous to the area. Two Burkinabe and one Kru reportedly died and a
    village was burned.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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