Five years after Ivory Coast violence, refugee children return home

As the trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo continues in The Hague, we look at the ongoing effects in Ivory Coast itself of the post-electoral violence of 2010 and 2011. During the crisis, many families were separated, especially in the west of the country where the violence was the worst. Many parents lost their children as they attempted to flee, or entrusted them to friends in an attempt to keep them safe.

More than 1,000 unaccompanied children ended up living in refugee camps or towns across the border in neighbouring Liberia. Now, five years later, the majority are going home. Our correspondents Anna Sylvestre-Treiner and Arnaud Froger followed ten-year-old Silvester and his sister, eight-year-old Macado, on their journey back to their family.

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