Information on the capital of the county of Lofa, on whether there is also a city called Lofa, and if so, on its population, size and dominant group (tribe) and on the dominant tribe in the county of Lofa [LBR20448.E]

For information on the county of Lofa, please consult the attached maps of Liberia. According to a map originally published in Liberia: A Country Study, Voinjama is the county seat of Lofa County (INS, Nov. 1993, Appendix I). The size of this city is not provided. No other city or place is identified in the attached maps.

According to the attached demographic map, Belle, Gbandi, Kissi, Loma, Mandingo and Mende tribes appear to occupy territory within Lofa County (ibid., Appendix II). For additional information on these tribes, please consult the attachments.

This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Reference


United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. November 1993. Alert Series: Liberia: Disintegration of the Liberian Nation Since the 1989 Civil War. (AL/LBR/94.001). Washington, DC: INS Resource Information Center.

Attachments

Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 1992. 12th ed. Edited by Barbara F. Grimes. Dallas, Tex.: Summer Institute of Linguistics, pp. 287-91.

Human Rights Watch (HRW). 1994. Easy Prey: Child Soldiers in Liberia. New York: Human Rights Watch, frontispiece.

United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). November 1993. Alert Series: Liberia: Disintegration of the Liberian Nation Since the 1989 Civil War. (AL/LBR/94.001). Washington, DC: INS Resource Information Center, Appendices I-IV.