【全非资讯·加纳】 利比里亚：加纳已在阿比让采取行动解救同胞，利比里亚在哪里？

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在推土机夷平他们的家园三周后，400多名利比里亚人目前正睡在阿比让（Abidjan）郊外的教室里。加纳已经从同一场强拆中接回了228名本国公民，而利比里亚至今尚未作出回应。\n\n本可以有这样一种故事走向：利比里亚政府迅速、果断且切实地为其人民采取行动。但这并不是当下正在阿比让上演的版本。\n\n三周前，科特迪瓦当局作为更广泛城市清理计划的一部分，拆除了阿比让郊区的Vridi Canal社区。400多名利比里亚公民在强拆中失去了家园，其中包括许多在科特迪瓦生活和工作了60多年的渔民及其家属。他们的财物、生意、证件以及部分积蓄也在过程中化为乌有。妇女、儿童、老人和特殊需求群体目前正在庇护所中度日。\n\n仅凭这一点，就足以促使一个政府采取行动。而让利比里亚的沉默更加难以接受的是，邻国已经树立了榜样。面对同样的强拆，加纳通过其外交部主导的协调行动，为约327名本国公民提供协助，并将其中的228人遣返回国。加纳将此事视其本质——一场涉及本国人民的人道主义紧急事件，需要政府直接介入。\n\n这个问题描述起来并不复杂，尽管解决起来并不简单。滞留在临时设施中的阿比让利比里亚人急需紧急庇护所、食物、医疗护理和卫生设施，而这些临时设施原本根本不是为了容纳流离失所的家庭数周之久而建的。除此之外，他们需要一个愿意查明受影响公民人数、代表他们与科特迪瓦当局直接对话、并为任何想要回国重建家园的人安排交通工具的政府。\n\n利比里亚与因数十年的战争和经济困境而散落于西非各地的海外侨民社区之间，有着一段漫长而复杂的历史。这些侨民社区向国内汇款，与利比里亚保持着深厚的联系，但通常只有在对政府有利时才会听到来自祖国的声音。这是一个并不方便的时机，而这正是真正的考验。政府对公民的义务不会止于国境线，尤其是当这些公民是已经在异国他乡度过了六十年岁月的年迈渔民时。\n\n总统Boakai的政府无需凭空摸索应对之策。它只需翻开加纳已经使用过的行动指南：评估、接触、协助并遣返那些想要回家的人。利比里亚政府迟迟不作公开回应的每一个星期，这400人就在猜疑中多度过一个星期，不知道他们的政府是否还看得到他们。利比里亚本不该需要外国政府来树立榜样，才记起它对本国人民负有什么责任。但如果非要如此，榜样就在眼前。是时候行动了

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More than 400 Liberians are sleeping in schoolrooms outside Abidjan, three weeks after bulldozers took their homes. Ghana already brought 228 of its own citizens back from the same demolition. Liberia has yet to answer.

THERE'S A VERSION OF THIS STORY where the Liberian government moves quickly, decisively, and visibly for its own people. That's not the version playing out in Abidjan right now.

THREE WEEKS AGO, IVORIAN AUTHORITIES demolished the Vridi Canal community on the outskirts of Abidjan, part of a broader urban clearance program. More than 400 Liberian nationals -- many of them fishermen and their families who've lived and worked in Côte d'Ivoire for over 60 years -- lost their homes in the process, along with their belongings, their businesses, their documents, and in some cases their savings. Women, children, elderly people, and people with special needs are now sheltering in

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THAT ALONE SHOULD BE ENOUGH to move a government to act. What makes Liberia's silence harder to swallow is the example sitting right next door. Ghana, facing the exact same demolition, assisted roughly 327 of its citizens and repatriated 228 of them through a coordinated operation run by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ghana treated this for what it is -- a humanitarian emergency involving its own people, one that called for its own government to step in directly. Liberia's community leaders in

THIS ISN'T A COMPLICATED problem to describe, even if it's not a simple one to fix. Liberians in Abidjan need emergency shelter, food, medical care, and sanitation right now, while they're stuck in temporary facilities never meant to house displaced families for weeks on end. Beyond that, they need a government willing to find out how many of its citizens were affected, talk directly with Ivorian authorities on their behalf, and arrange transportation home for anyone who wants to return and rebu

LIBERIA HAS A LONG, complicated relationship with its diaspora communities scattered across West Africa by decades of war and economic hardship -- communities that send remittances home, that keep deep ties to Liberia, and that mostly hear from their government only when it's convenient. This is a moment when it isn't convenient, and that's exactly the test. A government's obligations to its citizens don't stop at its own borders, especially when those citizens are elderly fishermen who spent si

PRESIDENT BOAKAI'S ADMINISTRATION doesn't need to invent a playbook here. It needs to open the one Ghana already used: assess, engage, assist, and repatriate those who want to come home. Every week that passes without a visible Liberian response is another week those 400 people spend wondering whether their government even sees them. Liberia shouldn't need a foreign government's example to remember what it owes its own people. But if that's what it takes, the example is right there. It's past ti

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