Document #1241335
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
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.
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.
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.