Liberian refugees don't want to quit Ghana

Hundreds of Liberia's remaining refugees currently in camps in Ghana want to be resettled anywhere but Liberia. Dissatisfied with plans by the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate them, they recently staged daily demonstrations outside the gates of the main Buduburam Refugee Camp, about 30 minutes' drive from Ghana's capital Accra. Under the UN plans, they will be given $100 dollars and sent back to war-torn Liberia to start life all over again. The refugees are demanding $1,000 and resettlement in a third country, either in North America or Europe. Between October 2004 and June 2007, around 105,000 refugees were voluntarily repatriated to Liberia by the UNCHR. Some of them had been in countries such as Guinea, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Nigeria for up to 20 years. Now, the remainer are reluctant to move from Ghana ("the Jewel in the Crown of West Africa") to Liberia. afppress.com