UN helps Liberian refugees come back home

Almost four-hundred Liberian refugees have arrived in Liberia from Ghana in a convoy of buses and trucks.

The return of the refugees has been organised by the United Nations' refugees agency as part of the programme of voluntary repatriation.

This began last September and so far some three-thousand people have returned home from Ivory Coast, Guinea, Ghana and Nigeria.

A spokesman for the agency UNHCR in West Africa told the BBC that the UN would launch an appeal next week to international donors for funds to carry out re-integration and re-settlement projects in Liberia.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service