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GENEVA, Switzerland, April 20 (UPI) -- The U.N. Refugee agency said Tuesday it is still $25 million short of its goal for aid to Liberia, despite last week's urgent appeal for donations.
UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond told a news briefing in Geneva it had received an additional $11 million from the United States following the latest appeal to prepare for the return of an estimated 150,000 Liberian war refugees this year, but was still $25 million short of its goal. The agency reported last week that it had received only $3 million of the $39.2 million it had sought for Liberia for 2004.
The arrival of thousands of spontaneous returnees, after a peace accord last year ended Liberia's almost 15 years of civil war, has temporarily slowed, "but we expect it to rise again next week," Redmond said.
UNHCR has so far helped 1,600 refugees with transport from the border to Monrovia, the Liberian capital, where a way station and a camp hold about 6,000 returnees who cannot go back to their home areas due to security concerns.
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