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Refugees return from Cote d’Ivoire

    ABIDJAN

    Several hundred refugees have returned to Liberia this week from three regions in Cote d’Ivoire, UNHCR officials told IRIN on Friday.

    On Wednesday a UNHCR-assisted convoy of 322 returnees crossed the border from Toulepleu in the southwest of Cote d’Ivoire into Liberia and on the same day some 250 refugees travelled from Guiglo to Grand Gedeh County (southeastern Liberia).

    Meanwhile a group of 194 from the Tabou area in southwestern Cote d’Ivoire made the first ferry trip across the Cavalli River into Liberia on Tuesday and a similar sized group is expected to follow on Saturday. “Between now and the end of June we expect two to three rotations a week from the Tabou area,” a UNHCR officer in Monrovia said.

    The total number of Liberian returnees from Cote d’Ivoire since 1 January now stands at 2,620, UNHCR said.

    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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