The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has announced the end of the refugee status given to Ivorians who fled political crises in their country to reside in neighboring Liberia. To mark the occasion, the human rights organisation’s Chief Filippo Grandi was in the northeastern town of Buuto on World Refugee Day. The High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi was in Buuto northeastern Liberia, located about 377 km away from the capital, Monrovia to witness the repatriation of the last batch of 268 Ivorian refugees from Liberia.
“On Monday, June 20, 2022, in Abidjan, on World Refugee Day, together with the President of Côte d’Ivoire, I will announce the cessation clause for Ivorian refugees in Liberia,” he said on the eve of his visit.
In October 2021, he recommended that asylum countries end refugee status for Ivorians following the peaceful resolution of two decades of civil conflict and instability in Côte d’Ivoire.
The announcement will end the UN’s assistance and protection for Ivorians who decide to continue to live in the host country.
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