Liberia

Armed groups on Wednesday attacked two camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) just outside the Liberian capital, Monrovia, according to information on Thursday by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Humanitarian agencies have been allowed access to refugee and IDP camps close to the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its weekly situation report of 1-7 April.

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has called on the Liberian authorities to search for four journalists who have been missing for more than two weeks in the country's eastern and central regions, where government forces are battling rebels of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Development (LURD) movement. The missing journalists are Grody Dorbor, editor of "The Inquirer" newspaper, Oscar Dolo, Nyahn Flomo and William Quiwea, all local correspondents for the radio station Talking Drum ...read more

A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva last Friday said the agency's operations for refugees from Cote d'Ivoire in Liberia were now severely hampered by an upsurge of recent fighting in eastern border regions.

A new Global Witness report exposes the Liberian government’s violent destabilisation of West Africa, through its support of mercenaries in Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone and through its regular import of weapons in violation of UN sanctions. The report, titled, ‘The Usual Suspects: Liberia’s Weapons and Mercenaries in Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone’, outlines the threat posed by Liberia to international peace and security.

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