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Buduburam is a refugee camp located 44 kilometers (27 mi) west of Accra, Ghana.It is along the Accra-Cape Coast Highway. [1] Opened by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1990, the camp is home to more than 12,000 refugees from Liberia who fled their country during the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996) and the Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003). [2]
Sitting on a tattered mattress amongst the rubble of his former home, Wendell Elijah Mallobe is one of 15,000 Liberian refugees left destitute after authorities in Ghana demolished the camp where ...
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The Buduburam refugee camp west of Accra, Ghana, home in 2005 to more than 40,000 refugees from Liberia. On March 7, 2003, the war tribunal Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) decided to summon Taylor and charge him with war crimes and crimes against humanity, but they kept this decision and this charge secret until June that year. [57]
The U.N. refugee agency voiced concern at the "rapidly deteriorating" situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, saying the war had left around 350,000 displaced people with ...
Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana, home to more than 12,000 Liberians [45] (opened 1990) Bwagiriza and Gatumba refugee camps in Burundi host refugees from the DRC. By 2013 there were four camps in Maban County , South Sudan , hosting refugees and internally displaced people.
The Budumburam Camp in the Central Region of Ghana is home to over 11,000 Liberian refugees. These refugees have lived in the camp for over two decades since they fled the civil war in that country. [5] In 2008, about 500 Liberian refugees in the camp embarked on an "indefinite sit-down strike". This was to draw attention to the perceived ...
Prosper Douglas Kwaku Bani (born 17 September, 1958) is a Ghanaian international aid and development manager and politician who is a former Chief of staff of Ghana [1] [2] and a former Minister for Interior. He is a senior manager and specialist in international peace-building and development processes.