Buduburam

Buduburam
Coordinates	5 ° 32 ′ N , 0 ° 28 ′ W Coordinates: 5 ° 32 ′ N , 0 ° 28 ′ W
Basic data
Country	Ghana
region	Central region
District	Gomoa East District
ISO 3166-2	GH-CP
Residents	50,516 (2010 census)
	Buduburam refugee camp, July 2005

Buduburam is a refugee camp in the Central province of Ghana . It mainly houses refugees from Liberia .

location

Buduburam is located in the east of the Ghanaian Central Region, near the border with the Greater Accra region . The capital Accra is 44 kilometers east of the camp.

traffic

Buduburam is located on National Road 1 , which runs along the Ghanaian coast.

history

The refugee camp was opened by UNHCR in 1990 due to the First Civil War in Liberia , which lasted from 1989 to 1996. A small village already existed there before. As a result of the Second Civil War in Liberia from 1999 to 2003 and the civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2001, other refugees found protection in the Buduburam camp. As a result, 18,713 people lived in Buduburam in 2000.

In 2007, the UNHCR recommended that the refugees return to their home country, as peace had returned to Liberia. Ghana's deputy minister of information also called on the refugees to return to their home country or to settle elsewhere in Ghana. As a result, a good 18,000 refugees have left the camp for Liberia since the end of the civil war in Liberia, but many people who were often born in the camp decided to stay, so that Buduburam's population continued to grow.

Population development


count	1970 census	1984 census	2000 census	2010 census
Residents	380	40	18,713	50,516

Personalities

Alphonso Davies , soccer player (* 2000)

Infrastructure

The situation in the warehouse is described as largely stable and orderly. Buduburam has a school, hospital, fire department, Liberian cultural center and a variety of shops.

Individual evidence

↑ Google Maps. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
^ Anna Boiko-Weyrauch: Future of Liberian Refugees in Ghana Uncertain . In: VOA . ( voanews.com [accessed April 18, 2018]).
↑ ^a ^b Buduburam in the Gomoa region of Ghana, west of Accra: From refugee camp to self-sufficient community. Retrieved April 18, 2018 (UK English).
↑ Ghana: Regions & Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .

[1] Google Maps. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .

[2] Anna Boiko-Weyrauch: Future of Liberian Refugees in Ghana Uncertain . In: VOA . ( voanews.com [accessed April 18, 2018]).

[:0-3] Buduburam in the Gomoa region of Ghana, west of Accra: From refugee camp to self-sufficient community. Retrieved April 18, 2018 (UK English).

[4] Ghana: Regions & Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .