According to testimonies from individuals who have toured the area, refugees are in urgent need of medical care and food. Many of the camps have not received food for several months.
Eyewitnesses say refugees are now taking crops from local farmers' fields.
The thumb of Guinean territory jutting into Sierra Leone territory is dotted with a string of refugee camps. A series of security incidents in the border area since last September drove many Liberian refugees eastward towards N'zerekore town. Although the group has a great deal of luggage, repatriation to Liberia s capital Monrovia by air is seen as more practical than by sea. The Forecariah sites south of Conakry, which host some 22,000 refugees, have been attacked from Sierra Leone in the past. Two more boat trips are scheduled for this week.