Buduburam is Ghana’s largest refugee camp, with 38,000 mostly Liberian refugees. It feels more like a little town than a refugee camp, with its brightly colored dwellings, bustling market, well-stocked supermarkets, corner shops, jewelry stores, hair salons, video clubs, cinema, churches, temples, and mosques.
Buduburam is fast becoming a popular area in Ghana for those wishing to settle down and build new homes. Locals are being sold cheap land by top real estate agents, and the location is now open. The Buduburam and Krisan refugee communities are both in Ghana, and both have welcomed enormous numbers of people who have been uprooted by civil conflict and persecution – but that’s about it.
In this article, Mrpocu.com will outline all you need to know about Buduburam, the refugee camp in Ghana.
What Is Buduburam
Buduburam is a Ghanaian refugee camp 44 kilometers (27 miles) west of Accra. The location is on the Accra-Cape Coast Highway.
The camp, which was established by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1990, now houses over 12,000 Liberian refugees who fled their country during the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996) and the Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003), as well as Sierra Leone refugees who fled their civil war (1991–2002).
Liberian, Ghanaian, and international NGO organizations, as well as volunteer organizations and individuals, assist at the camp. Initially, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offered individual aid and support to the settlement’s occupants.
Liberia, on the other hand, won elections in 1997 that the UN deemed fair enough to allow for safe repatriation. As a result, the UNHCR stopped providing refugee support to Liberians in Ghana, and the settlement lost a significant amount of money. Approximately 3,000 refugees returned to Liberia at this time. However, the majority of them elected to stay in Ghana, and the Buduburam hamlet became the hub of their society.
The political situation in Liberia deteriorated soon after the 1997 elections, and new arrivals of Liberian refugees in Ghana prompted the UNHCR to return to Buduburam. Although the UNHCR restricts its provisional aid and settlement efforts to unaccompanied kids, injured and elderly people, and the disabled, the organization does fund community infrastructure initiatives such as construction and education.
Buduburam Camp In Recent Time
Over 42,000 refugees presently live in the camp, the majority of whom are Liberians, Somalis, Sudanese, and others. New refugees continue to arrive at the colony on a daily basis.
The Deputy Minister of Information in Ghana stated in February 2011 that Buduburam is no longer needed and that the residents should consider returning to Liberia or settling elsewhere in Ghana; however, this statement did not deter or close the Refugees from commuting the bad environment and poor conditions, and they continued to live for good.
Approximately 3000 refugees returned to Liberia during this time. The majority of them elected to remain in Ghana in that status for the rest of their lives. The Buduburam Camp settlement served as the community’s hub. Our bigger humanitarian services and disciplines to the people and other impoverished in the societies are required due to their poor state.
The Government of Ghana has finally granted the Organization of (Refugees in Need) the final recognition, permit, registration, and above all, the appropriate Certificates to operate as a legalized entity sovereign of political affiliation and other internal and external influences after the Government was certified with the Organization’s performance.
Now the place is open to other locals in Ghana. Top real estate agencies are now selling lands to locals who want to build and settle at Kasoa Budubruam.