United Nations Radio

In Liberia, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has begun a two-day exercise to verify registered Ivorian refugees after many of the more than 10-thousand who sought refuge in the country began returning home.

UNHCR says the exercise is concentrated in several villages along the border that saw an influx of refugees in early November.  Spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis says turn out was low in the border town of Butuo which had seen the largest influx of refugees.

"Some refugee families in the Butuo transit centre and at the Cestos River crossing point said many refugee families are shuttling between Butuo and Cote d'Ivoire as they continue to fear potential clashes between the Ivorian Government and rebel troops."

UNHCR says despite the relative calm since the clashes in November, refugees report that people are still haunted by the prospects of war.