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Photo Gallery Ivorian refugees flee into Liberia

As of late March, more than 100,000 Ivorian refugees had crossed into eastern Liberia since lingering political tension from a disputed presidential election in neighbouring Côte d' Ivoire erupted into violence in February. Most have gone to Liberia's Nimba County, but in a sign that the fighting has shifted, some 6,000 Ivorians recently fled across the border into Liberia's Grand Gedeh County. Most of the new arrivals have settled in remote villages - some inaccessible by car. The UN refugee agency sent a mission to assess the needs of the refugees in the region.

Photographer Glenna Gordon photographed new arrivals near Zwedru in south-eastern Liberia.

 

All pictures UNHCR/G. Gordon

A family of refugees from Côte d’ Ivoire walks along a forest track towards Zwedru, a town in south-eastern Liberia.Refugees make their way to safety along a path in south-east Liberia. Most of the Ivorian refugees in Liberia have walked for days looking for food and shelter.This family of Ivorians fled with hardly any of their possessions.An Ivorian refugee gets a lift on a motorbike taxi to Zwedru.A mother, carrying her belongings on her head, makes her way towards the Liberian town of Zwedru with her daughter. Refugees stop on the side of the road to bathe in a creek near Janzon, a small village in south-eastern Liberia that received an influx of more than 3,000 people in a few days.Refugees from Côte d’ Ivoire make their way across a plank bridge on the road to Janzon in Liberia.A UNHCR team heads to southern Liberia in four-wheel drive vehicles to assess the situation there. Refugees from Côte d’ Ivoire rest at a school in Janzon, Liberia.Prince Zende, just one year old, sleeps while his mother collects water in Janzon, Liberia.Marie, 16, plays with her nephew while holding her infant daughter Leticia on her lap at a transit centre in Toe, south-eastern Liberia. Refugees build shelters at the Toe transit centre in south-eastern Liberia.This Ivorian refugee at the transit centre in Toe, Liberia, has reason to look grim.