Search called off for refugees

ABIDJAN Bad weather has forced the postponement of the search for a Russian trawler which has been at sea for three weeks with…

ABIDJAN Bad weather has forced the postponement of the search for a Russian trawler which has been at sea for three weeks with 400 Liberian and other African refugees, aid workers said.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF Doctors Without Borders) had said it would fly over waters off the Ivory Coast and Liberia, following sightings on Saturday of a vessel matching the description of the Russian flagged Zolotitsa.

The Zolotitsa left Monrovia on May 26th with some 400 passengers desperate to flee factional clashes in the Liberian capital.

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