As a former refugee who now lives in the United States, I take such story with intense interest. Please take note of the following points:

1. It is sad to see the faith of unskilled refugees in Africa decided by bureaucrats in New York, especially when they have not experienced what thousand of Liberians have gone through as a result of the civil war.

2. In this age and time, what can $5.00 significantly do for returnees to a land they hardly know?

3. If resettlement of Liberians were not given to the wrong people, but given to letigimate Liberians, the UN would not have this problem they dealing with.

4. How can you suggest to integrate a group of people into a nation that never genuinely accepted them?

I am calling on the UN to look into this matter more closely and objectively, as the women and children at the Refugee Camp in Ghana continue to suffer while others have made millions off their plight.

Orea Wright USA

well u people have done well for some of us that we will be able to leave our veaw here and make people knpw our mine... and thank all africa.com

I am Praying for the people of that camp. It`s hard to be heard when no one is listening. I`m listening and I am praying.I have dear friends on that camp in Ghana. I love them and i dont want to see nothing bad come of them. Some dont know no other place except the camp as home. please offical in africa hear their cry!!!

What can we do from the United States to put pressure on the UN to make alternative decisions in the future of these refugees?? I agree that returning to Liberia might be safe but return to what?? Most of these people have been in the refugee camps for years and there is no home, no jobs or no family to go back to. They don't have the money or the resources to find refuge in other countries because all the neighboring countries don't want them. They want to leave as much as the Ghanaian goverment but they don't know where to go and they are not given the resources to be able to survive anywhere else. And why is the Ghanian goverment keeping some of these refugees prisoners?? They fear for thier lives and they have no options. WHAT IS BEING DONE TO ASSURE THEM A BETTER FUTURE? WE ARE TALKINGA ABOUT 40,000 HUMAN BEINGS!! WILL THE WORLD STAND BY AND DO NOTHING??!?!!

John Koffour should be ashamed of himself. As president of the so-called African Union i expected him to approach such a little incident of refugees going on hunger strike as an elder of Africa and not take it out of proportion. Would he like ghanaians to be treated in like manner in another country. Wouldnt it be wise for the "UNHCR" and the government of ghana to address the cause of the problem rather than treating the effect heavy-handedly.

I was in Liberia recently and was surprised to see how many Ghanaians are rushing to that war ravaged Liberia. You even have them in the villages trying to do commercial fishing. Liberian are the only people who treat other Africans just as they would wish to be treated. I think we need to teach the Ghanaian people a very good lesson that will make them desist from the habit of deporting Liberians on the least provocation-at the right time when it will hurt them the most. I will get into partly because of this.They will relearn the bitter the Nigerians taught them. I want to encourage all my beloved fellow Liberians that things will change for the better for our wonderful country.Let us all keep working hard and lets keep that country on our hearts every day-the sun will shine once more on Liberia and it will shine brighter. Dont loose heart my fellow countrymen.

the difference between the ghanaians you have met in the villages of liberia and your fellows in ghana is that the ghanaians have taken their lives in their hand and are making a living for themselves.

they are not disgruntled or waiting for manna to fall in their lap.

get over yourselves. fact that you are refugees does not mean the world owes you a living. get off your backs and work for it. that is how a nation is built not unnecessary civil strife and hysterics

I have been supporting 2 refugees in Ghanna for some time now, and Ive learned that if its 5 bucks or a hundred bucks its prtty much a slap in the face.Everything costs money and alot of these people they want to send back were children who escaped the violence and many have no Family or anyone to return to...they are all dead.If they get back to Liberia with a lousy $100 in hand thier chances for survival are very very limited,they either need more money or alot more help.

as a ghanaian i have the following quick points to make

i. what makes liberian refugees think the government of ghana has anything to do with payments and decisions made by UN agencies.it is this sort of unfounded suspicions of people misusing public money that leads to civil unrest. peace loving ghanaians should feel insulted by this insinuations.

ii. liberian refugees in ghana with gripes against their living conditions should use all appropriate means to seek redress. people stripping naked to demonstrate is clearly not acceptable to ghanaians (assuming it is to liberians). so whilst us ghanaians will welcome refugees from togo, liberia and other west african countries we do not by so doing invite lawlessness. I am sure that this a point that will by now have been established int he minds of liberians in ghana.

iii. liberian refugees in ghana should get on their bikes and show some spirit of entrepreurship instead of sitting in buduburam expecting manna to fall into their lap. there are lots of opportunities in ghana to get jobs and i am sure the same will go liberia. they have a golden opportunity to come back home and build liberia. they shoul snapp out of the thinking that somebody owes them. No one owes them anything.

as a concerned citizen of the republic of liberia partly living in asia,i take this time to extend thanks and appreciations to the government of liberia and it's foreign partners for their level of hard works to ensure a peaceful and once more stable liberia.

as to regard to the current refugees repatriation exercise in ghana,i think both the government of liberia and the government of ghana should take a far more different approach other than raiding and using force to get people back home.if the united nation refugee agency decide to drop ghana off it's list of liberian refugees,i think the best solution inorder to get back all registered refugees back home is to set up and announce a final dealine for voluntary repatriation.after this deadline,all refugees failing to comply should be drop off from the united nation refugees agency list in ghana and the refugee camp be closed.refugees refusing to be repatriated should no longer be under the protection of UNHCR or receive any form of humanitaria aids.

liberians everywhere need to know that it is indeed a matter of must that all liberia return home from the diespora,especially those seeking asylum in neighboring countries and with serious humanitarian plights.it is not better than home to continue living under these kinds of terrible condition in foreign and neighboring countries that are also economically instable.

Dickson b morris,presently in thailand