Liberia: UN agency helps largest batch of refugees return home since 2004

More than 550 refugees who fled Liberia’s brutal civil war arrived home over the past week – the largest batch since the UN refugee agency began its repatriation programme in 2004, and less than two weeks since Liberia’s newly elected president urged her countrymen to return. This latest convoy from Sierra Leone boosted the number of refugees brought home by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners since October 2004 to 6,559.