About 22,000 Sierra Leoneans have returned home, often to equally hazardous conditions. People of course want to go home. This asks for a political solution. Thousands of desperate refugees in Guinea trapped by fighting and hostile neighbors fled a refugee camp on foot Friday behind the U.N. convoy, with the sound of gunfire getting closer. We need a corridor of security and safety for refugees and humanitarian workers.
Guinea wants a slow relocation so it can hunt for the rebels it fears are hiding among the refugees.
Many more refugees remain in camps where relief workers have been unable to reach them.