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Dealing with Displacement: Refugee-Host Relations, Food and Forest Resources in Sierra Leonean Mende Communities During the Liberian Influx, 1990-91

Published on 1 January 1992

This Report is based on research carried out in the Gola forest area of Sierra Leone in March and April 1991, where Mende communities received large numbers of refugees from the Liberian civil war. It documents refugee-host relations during the year prior to this time.

Authors

Melissa Leach

Emeritus Fellow

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published by
IDS
authors
Leach, M.
journal
IDS Research Report, issue 22
isbn
0 903715 66 X

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