Liberia: UN urges refugees to wait for repatriation programme

The head of the United Nations refugees agency (UNHCR) in Liberia, Moses Okello, has urged more than 300,000 Liberian refugees scattered across West Africa not to return home, but wait for a UN-organised repatriation exercise scheduled to begin in October. Okello told reporters last Thursday that most of the 50,000 refugees who have spontaneously returned to Liberia from both Guinea and Sierra Leone since the signing of an August peace deal have ended up in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.