Almost 200,000 refugees have found a safe haven in Guinea as the wars in West Africa were at their worst, mostly from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire. Now, almost all Sierra Leoneans have been repatriated and those few remaining will be offered Guinean citizenship. The repatriation of 73,000 Liberians is to start in October this year. Guinea has been the West African country that hosted most refugees during the end-1990s.