{"id":383929,"date":"2017-12-16T17:46:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=383929"},"modified":"2017-12-17T07:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T07:35:54","slug":"dont-recognize-liberian-refugees-ghana-unhcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/dont-recognize-liberian-refugees-ghana-unhcr\/","title":{"rendered":"We don’t recognize Liberian ‘refugees’ in Ghana – UNHCR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Associate Protection Officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ghana, Edmund Kwofie, has stated that the UNHCR does not recognize the presence of Liberian refugees in Ghana.<\/p>\n
According to him, they are \u201care not persons of concern to UNHCR,\u201d since the conditions that allowed them to stay in the country have changed.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”gOh4rXHxIF9TYaxJoVkt10DbgFTtZLWU”]He said \u201cIn 2012, the UNHCR decided that there was no longer the need for Liberians to stay in the country as refugees because the circumstances that led to their immigration as refugees have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n