Guinea.txt
Guinea
001: Guinea/Refugees from Liberia/Baala Transit Centre/Voluntary Repatriation
Returnees receive assistance packages containing food and household items. But help will also
be needed to rebuild the infrastructure in return areas, where roads and bridges as well as
health and education systems must be rehabilitated.
Photo: UNHCR/28296/03.1998/K. Diagne
002: Guinea/Vol. Repatriation of Liberian Refugees/Baala Transit Centre/Close-ups
During their exile, refugee women have been encouraged to participate in vocational training
programs and income-generating activities. Funding will be sought to launch similar programs
to benefit women once they return home.
Photo: UNHCR/28295/03.1998/K. Diagne
003: Guinea/Refugees from Sierra Leone/Gueckedou Region/Registration
To avoid rebel attacks on camps inside Guinea, UNHCR started transferring some 50,000 refugees
to new camps further away from the dangerous border. Here, going through the checklist of
refugees who were moved that day.
Photo: UNHCR/29054/04.1999/C. Schurpf
004: Guinea/Refugees from Sierra Leone/Gueckedou Region/Agriculture
Pending their voluntary repatriation when security in Sierra Leone has improved, Guinea provides
asylum to some 350,000 refugees, most of whom arrived in 1998. Here, refugees prepare land
so they can grow their own food.
Photo: UNHCR/29055/04.1999/C. Schurpf
005: Guinea/Refugees from Sierra Leone/Gueckedou Region/Camp Life
In April '99, about 350,000 Sierra Leonean refugees were living in more than 60 sites in Guinea.
Most fled in 1998 and stopped in the border area immediately after reaching Guinea. About 75% of
the refugees are women and children.
Photo: UNHCR/28294/08.1998/L. Jackson
006: Guinea: Refugees from Sierra Leone/Gueckedou Region/Close-ups
By April '99, about 350,000 Sierra Leoneans had fled to Guinea. To avoid rebel attacks, UNHCR and
its partners started transferring some 50,000 refugees, including many vulnerable persons, to new
camps further away from the border.
Photo: UNHCR/29052/04.1999/C. Schurpf
007: Guinea/Refugees from Liberia/Baala Border Crossing/Voluntary Repatriation
Large-scale voluntary repatriation of Liberian refugees started in late 1997. Here, a
repatriation convoy crosses the Guinea/Liberian border at Baala in the Nzerekore region.
Photo: UNHCR/28297/031998/K. Diagne
008: Guinea/Liberian Refugees/Baala Transit Centre, Nzerekore Region/Vol. Repatriation
Since the early 1990s, Guinea has been one of the main countries of asylum for Liberian refugees.
About 115,000 were still in Guinea in December 1998. Here, returnees boarding trucks at a
transit centre near the Liberian border.
Photo: UNHCR/28293/08.1998/L. Jackson
009: Guinea/Sierra Leonean Refugees/Centre National de Pediatrie, Conakry/Close-ups
During a campaign of atrocities begun in '98, rebels mutilated thousands of civilians in a
bid to gain their loyalty through terror. UNHCR provides therapy and medical aid, including
artificial limbs, to dozens of victims who fled to Guinea.
Photo: UNHCR/29056/04.1999/ C. Schurpf
010: Guinea/Refugees from Sierra Leone/Gueckedou Region/Shelter
To avoid rebel attacks on camps inside Guinea, UNHCR started transferring some 50,000 refugees
to new camps further away from the dangerous border. These refugees are rebuilding their shelter
at a new camp site.
Photo: UNHCR/29053/04.1999/C. Schurpf
011: Guinea/Refugees from Sierra Leone/Khalia Camp, Forecariah region/Children
Many young Sierra Leoneans have witnessed atrocities against family members when a wave of
terror, mutilation and sexual violence flared up in their country in 1998. UNHCR has set up a
counselling project for traumatized children.
Photo: UNHCR/29431/12.1999/C. Shirley
