Sierra Leone: Refugee Status Ends But Many Opt to Stay

Some 6,300 Sierra Leonean refugees who have been living in Guinea for 20 years will lose their refugee status as of 1 January 2009 according to the UN High Commission for Refugees , leaving them with a choice ...

[Comrade Fayiah LEIBA]

It's better they either get integrated into a guinean society for their safety or return home. THis is what I can advise them to take note, please.

Many blessings to that committee of refugees.

[Rebecca KONO]

It would have been better for our brother Sierra Leoneans in Guinea if they were embark in learning any trade while waiting for resettlement program from UNHCR,all this while guineans working at the UNHCR office were making money out of our brothers.Please my brothers come back to Sierra Leone and let help in building our broken walls.

[Rebecca KONO]

If you are hard working you can make it anywhere in the world but some people wants to go to over sea without even trying to learn something good to earn money.Please brothers and sisters come back home and learn something good for you living.

[love]

you people are insane. all those comment are too much to read. Is better to live in abroad than living in africa where those thieves are stealing our money, Gold and Diamonds. God really bless Africa but our people(leaders) are to be blame.

[mohamed sylla]

Does not really matter so many Sierra Leoneans are of Mandingo, Sousou and Fula ancestary and their grandfathers settled in Sierra Leone long ago. Africa is home to us all, "no matter where u come from as long as u are a black man" Peter Tosh or Burning Spear cant recall.