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Home > Liberia: Liberian returnees find out it takes more than resilience to remain home

Contributor [1]
Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 03:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
171 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Liberians impatient to return home after 14 years of civil war are finding out that it takes more than resilience to begin a new life in the face of so much destruction, lack of income-earning opportunities and insecurity in some places. Juliet Massaquoi, a 24-year-old mother of four children, came back to Ganta in northern Liberia's Nimba county two weeks ago.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/24146 [5]
Country: 
Liberia [6]

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