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 SINJE, Liberia (AP) - A senior U.N. official marked World Refugee Day Tuesday by welcoming home 125 Liberians from Sierra Leone where they lived for years seeking haven from Liberia's civil war.
One-third of Liberia's 3 million people were driven from their homes by the 14-year war, which ended in 2003. Many of the refugees are spread out over Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and other neighboring countries, and have not been home in a decade. Sierra Leone alone is home to about 50,000 Liberian refugees. Ivory Coast has 38,000.
"It is our obligation, our duty and also our strong motivation to do our best in order that Liberians can have in the near future a place called a home," Antonio Guterres, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
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