Returnees From Cote d'Ivoire In Ghana

The Dormaa District office of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has since last year registered 4,490 returnees fleeing the unrest in Cote d’Ivoire. They are made up of 4, 296 Burkinabes, 180 Beninois, five Nigerians, four Ghanaians, four Liberians and one Togolese.

Mr. Stephen Adu, District Coordinator, disclosed this to Ghana News Agency at Dormaa-Ahenkro. Nana Kofi Atta-Fena, Brong Ahafo Regional Coordinator disclosed this to Ghana News Agency at Dormaa Ahenkro. Nana Kofi Atta-Fena, Brong Ahafo Regional Coordinator said NADMO was making efforts to set up reception centres at Gonokrom, Frimpongkrom and Sampa on the border for returnees and refugees.

The Centres, he explained, would enable the organization to screen them to know who are returnees, refugees and those in transit. The Regional Coordinator announced that the government, with the support of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the United Nations Children Fund was to set up a refugee camp at Asuotiano, near Wamfie in the Dormaa district.