More than 70,000 Ivoirians have registered as refugees in Liberia since instability and violence erupted in the wake of Côte d'Ivoire's presidential elections. Some 30,000 people have arrived in the past three weeks alone, with many citing high risk of sexual and gender-based violence and fear of forced conscription as reasons for fleeing. Those who did not register due to lack of papers... And the main question remains unanswered: What is with those still trapped inside, the thousands IDP's? How can local communities cop with the influx into their communities?
The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated US$6 million dollars to help tens of thousands of refugees who have fled to Liberia from Côte d'Ivoire, this a price of 6 Tomahawk missile fired to help the "Rebels" in Libya and 120 of those missles had be used there. Well, with the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire worsening by the day, the European Commission increased its humanitarian aid fivefold to the victims of mounting violence on 17 March 2011. This followed the warning from 10 March 2011 as a top of United Nations that human rights violations, including rapes, abductions and killings, are escalating amid the ongoing post-electoral crisis in Côte d’Ivoire, with at least 27 people killed in just the past week.
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