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| Refugees | | Last Updated 04/06/2010 11:18:00 |
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 | African refugee ministers meet over IDP protection | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African ministers in charge of forced displacemen
ts kicked off a meeting here Friday to draw up a plan for
the implementation of a landmark treaty signed in April 2009, during a special S
ummit of African leaders on the protection of internally-displaced
persons (IDPs) held in Kampala, Uganda.
04/06/2010 full text... |
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| UN Food Aid for Cassamance Refugees | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme
(WFP), in collaboration with The Gambia Food and Nutrition Association (GAFNA),
has embark on a six-day food distribution exercise to extend aid to the Cassaman
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e refugees in The Gambia.
31/05/2010 full text... |
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| UN emergency relief coordinator visits Sudan | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - UN Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes is
due in Khartoum Wednesday for a five-day visit to assess conditions in Southern
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udan and evaluate the humanitarian situation in the restive Darfur Region, accor
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ing to a UN brief, made available to PANA here Tuesday.
25/05/2010 full text... |
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| About 3,500 Ghanaians take refuge in Togo | | Lome, Togo (PANA) - Nearly 3,500 Ghanaians, mostly women and children, have fled
their communities in Ghana to settle in the Tandjoare community, in northern To
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o, according to the Togolese television, which covered a visit of the Togolese M
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nister of Security, Colonel Atcha Titikpina, to Tandjoare.
25/05/2010 full text... |
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| Ethiopia, UNHCR seek funds to ease plight of Eritrean, Somali refugees | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Amid a wave of refugees from Somalia and Eritre
a, the Ethiopian government and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) an
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ounced Wednesday that they need an additional US$13 million to be able to assist
almost 25,000 refugees from Somalia expected to enter Ethiopia in the next few m
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nths.
12/05/2010 full text... |
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| EU grants DRC refugees euros 6.9m | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The European Union will grant 6.9 million euros to r
efugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Peter Zangl, Director General of
the Humanitarian Aid Office to the European Commission (ECHO), announced in Braz
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aville.
10/05/2010 full text... |
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| France grants 220,000 euros to DRC refugees | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - France will grant 220,000 euros for the purchase of 222 tonnes of rice as part of a six-month emergency food assistance operation to the refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), sources from the French Embassy told PANA Thursday in Brazzaville.
01/04/2010 full text... |
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| Congo: WFP airlifts food to fleeing refugees | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) is airlifting urgent food assistance into northern Republic of Congo, to reach tens of thousands of refugees from the neighbouring DR Congo who crossed the border to escape conflict in their country.
18/03/2010 full text... |
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| 155,000 Burundian refugees granted Tanzanian citizenship | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - About 155,000 Burundian refugees, seeking Tanzanian
citizenship, have had their requests granted, according to a communiqué from th
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United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), published on Thursday in
Bujumbura, the Burundi capital.
11/03/2010 full text... |
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| EAC, UNHCR sign accord on protection of displaced persons | | Dar es Salaam,Tanzania (PANA) - The East African Community (EAC) and the UN Refu
gee Agency (UNHCR) Tuesday
unveiled here a framework for cooperation in areas of common concern, including
the protection of forcibly displaced people
and regulatory regimes affecting the movement of persons, immigration and refuge
e management.
09/03/2010 full text... |
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| 20,000 Burundian refugees poised to go back home | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Over 20,000 Burundian refugees would put an end to t
heir exile and get back home during 2010 from Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic R
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public of Congo and Malawi, according to Ms. Immaculée Nahayo, Burundian Minist
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r for National Solidarity, Repatriation of Refugees and Social Reintegration.
17/02/2010 full text... |
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| 53,000 Congolese, 89,000 Rwandans to be repatriated | | Kinshasa, RD Congo (PANA) - A three-day tripartite meeting, bringing together ex
perts from the DR Congo, Rwanda and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR),
being held in Kigali, capital of Rwanda, will decide on a voluntary repatriation
of 53,000 Congolese and 80,000 Rwandan refugees to their respective countries, t
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e National Commission for Refugees (CNR) said.
16/02/2010 full text... |
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| UN agency relocates Somali refugees in Ethiopia | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday sai
d it had started relocating Somali refugees from a transit centre in Ethiopia's
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olo Ado, near the border with Somalia, to a new camp at Melkadida, some 65 kilom
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tres away.
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| Somali refugees acquire Tanzanian citizenship | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) â" Authorities in Tanzania are processing the na
turalisation of 600 Somali refugees who
fled the lingering bloody conflict in their Horn of Africa country, Home Affairs
Deputy Minister Khamisi Kagasheki has
told the ongoing National Assembly (parliament) session in Dodoma, central Tanza
nia.
12/02/2010 full text... |
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| Amnesty Int'l tasks Chadian govt on Darfur refugees | | New York, US (PANA) - London-based Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday called
on the Chadian government to allow UN peacekeepers to continue protecting 250,0
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0 refugees from Darfur and 170,000 internally-displaced people (IDPs) in the eas
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of the country.
11/02/2010 full text... |
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| Twenty nine countries sign IDP convention | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Twenty nine African Union (AU) member countries h
ave signed the convention on internally displaced persons (IDP), and more are ex
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ected to follow suit soon, a senior official said on Thursday.
28/01/2010 full text... |
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| Burundi to close chapter on refugees | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 36,000 Burundi's refugees who are still in
exile abroad would be waiting to be repatriated at the end of this year to
close the debate regarding one of the oldest refugee situations in the world.
30/12/2009 full text... |
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| UN agency seeks US$ 2.8 mln for Kenyan refugees | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN refugee agency is appealing for US$ 2.8 million to
provide essential supplies and respond to possible outbreak of diseases among mo
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e than 300,000 refugees in two camps in Kenya, threatened by flooding.
07/11/2009 full text... |
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| 400 Burundian refugees return home from Tanzania | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency on Friday afternoon sent
home the final group of long-term Burundian refugees in Tanzania who
wanted to return, a landmark operation in ending one of the world's
most protracted refugee situations.
31/10/2009 full text... |
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| 15,000 Mauritanian refugees repatriated from Senegal | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Some 14,955 Mauritanian refugees, consisting of
3,888 families, have been repatriated from
Senegal to Mauritania since the end of January 2008, under a tripartite agreemen
t signed in November 2007 by both countries and the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), PANA reported.
28/10/2009 full text... |
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| Angolan refugees from DRC get logistic support | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The representative of the United Nations High Commission
er for Refugees (UNHCR), Bohdan Nahadjlo, has pledged that international agencie
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will provide logistic support to Angolan refugees returning from the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC).
25/10/2009 full text... |
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| AU set to adopt key convention on IDPs | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union (AU) opened a visionary summit here on
Thursday to address the festering problem of forced displacements on the Africa
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Continent, the UN said in a press statement from the Ugandan capital.
22/10/2009 full text... |
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| Museveni calls for multi-model system for refugees | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called for a mult
i-model system of managing refugees and
internally-displaced people (IDP) through academic and vocational training, to e
nable them gain skills that can help them transform their lives
in future.
16/10/2009 full text... |
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| Trouble brewing over forced closure of IDP camps in Kenya | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Trouble is brewing in parts of Kenya after the
expiration of a 14-day ultimatum, issued by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, for th
e closure of all camps for the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced peo
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le (IDPs), who were uprooted from their homes during the 2008 poll violence.
14/10/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR urges refugees to plant trees in Chad | | N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
has urged the 320,000 refugees living in Chad to plant trees, according to a st
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tement by the UN agency, made available to PANA here Tuesday.
25/08/2009 full text... |
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| Thousands displaced by LRA rebels | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 12,000 civilians have been forced from their h
omes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following a wave of attacks b
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the rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
12/08/2009 full text... |
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| DRC has 2 million internally-displaced persons | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The number of displaced persons in the Democratic Re
public of Congo (DRC) has reached the two million mark, according to the United
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ations Office of Coordination for Human Affairs (OCHA) in Kinshasa, the capital.
06/08/2009 full text... |
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| UN refugee chief draws attention to Somali crisis | | Dadaab, Kenya (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees, AntĂłnio Guterres, whi
le visiting a sprawling, overcrowded camp complex in north-east Kenya, put a spo
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light on the "dramatic" Somali refugee crisis and called on the international co
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munity for more help.
05/08/2009 full text... |
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| Namibia ''will not re-admit stranded refugees'' | | Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - The Namibian government has said that it will not all
ow back into the country a group of 41 Congolese refugees,
effectively slamming the door against the group, which fled the country two week
s ago citing security threats.
27/07/2009 full text... |
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| 136 Togolese refugees return home from Ghana | | Lomé, Togo (PANA) - A group of 136 Togolese who took refuge in Ghana were Wednes
day voluntarily repatriated back home by the UN High Commission for Refugees (UN
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CR), PANA learnt Thursday from official sources.
02/07/2009 full text... |
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| '170,000 flee Mogadishu' | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said almost
170,000 people had fled Somalia's capital
city of Mogadishu following fighting that erupted early in May, and expressed 'g
rave concern' about spiralling violence and the worsening
displacement crisis in the Horn of Africa nation.
28/06/2009 full text... |
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| African refugees in Nigeria slam UNHCR on welfare | | Oru, Nigeria (PANA) - Several African refugees at the Oru Camp in South West Nig
eria have chided the United Nations High Commission For Refugees (UNHCR) for not
taking adequate care of their welfare and abandoning them to their fate in their
hours of needs.
20/06/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR hails Burundi's role in refugees' repatriation | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The UN Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Saturday hail
ed the progress achieved by Burundi in the repatriation of the country's refuge
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s, in a press release issued here on the occasion of the celebration of the Worl
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Refugee Day.
20/06/2009 full text... |
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| 4,000 Ivorian refugees willing to return home, says UNHCR | | Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The 4,000 Ivorian refugees in Guinea could go back to t
heir country willingly during the first quarter of 2010 if the results of next N
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vember elections are accepted by all, a representative of the UN High Commission
for Refugees (UNHCR) in Guinea, Dillah Doumaye, said Thursday.
19/06/2009 full text... |
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| '42m people displaced in 2008' | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
has said 42 million people were forced to flee their homes due to conflict and p
ersecution
in 2008.
17/06/2009 full text... |
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| Census for Angolan refugees in Kinshasa kicks off next week | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The National Commission for Refugees (CNR) in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Angola Embassy to DRC, as well as
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) will from
Monday begin a census to check number of Angolan refugees in the District of Kin
s
hasa, a statement from CNR said on Friday.
22/05/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR begins repatriation of Burundian refugees from Rwanda | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A voluntary repatriation operation
for Burundian refugees living in neighbouring Rwanda started on
Monday with the return home of 529 refugees, a press release from
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) in Bujumbura said.
19/05/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR wants refugees catered for by anti-malaria strategies | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency and the Roll Back Malaria Partners
hip on Wednesday urged governments to ensure that refugees and other needy perso
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s are covered in national anti-malaria strategies and appropriate funds made ava
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lable for malaria control interventions for people in complex emergencies.
22/04/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR relocates Somali refugees in Ethiopia | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency Friday began the relocation of tho
usands of Somali refugees from a transit centre in Dolo Ado, south-east Ethiopia
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to the newly-opened Bokolmanyo camp, further inland from the border with Somali
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, the UN refugee agency said.
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| Six Iraqi refugees released in Mauritius | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Six Iraqis, detained in Mauritius since last Nove
mber, were released Thursday on bail following the intervention of the UN High C
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mmission for Refugees (UNHCR) which offered them the status of refugees Wednesda
y
, PANA learnt from a judicial source.
26/03/2009 full text... |
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| 6 Iraqis granted refugee status in Mauritius | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Six Iraqis, who have been languishing in Mauritia
n jail, since their arrival in November 2008, were Wednesday granted refugee sta
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us under the initiative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UN
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CR), PANA learnt from their lawyer in the Mauritian capital.
25/03/2009 full text... |
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| Angolan refugees in Zambia shun repatriation | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - More than 10,000 Angolan refugees at a camp in western Z
ambia have declined to return home despite the restoration of peace in their cou
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try, the state-run Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation reported Wednesday.
11/03/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR helps repatriate thousands of Rwandan refugees | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Thousands of Rwandan refugees like widow Marie
have been registering for repatriation since the launch of a joint Rwandan-Congo
lese offensive in January against a rebel militia group in North Kivu province,
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he UN refugee agency UNHCR says.
10/03/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR downsizes Namibian operations | | Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - The Namibian government said it is in a
quandary over the status of more than 8,000 refugees in the country,
following a UN refugee agency's move to downsize its operations in the country.
03/03/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR downsizes Namibian operations | | Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - The Namibian government said it is in a
quandary over the status of more than 8,000 refugees in the country,
following a UN refugee agency's move to downsize its operations in the country.
03/03/2009 full text... |
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| South Sudanese returnees number 300,000 | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The number of refugees returning to South Sudan since th
e signing of a peace accord in 2005 has passed the 300,000 mark, including the 1
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3,000 who were assisted home by the UN refugee agency.
12/02/2009 full text... |
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| Kenya, UNHCR move to decongest refugee camp | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Due to overcrowding in Kenya's Daadab refugee camp which
mainly houses Somali refugees, the government has set aside 2,000 hectares of l
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nd for the construction of a new camp, Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang, has
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aid.
06/02/2009 full text... |
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| 16,000 internally-displaced Somalis return home | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Sixteen thousand Somalis, displaced in some of th
e worst fighting in the capital, Mogadishu, are beginning to return to their dev
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stated neighborhoods, UN Nairobi-based refugee agency UNHCR said in a statement
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ANA received here Friday.
30/01/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR shuts out Sierra Leoneans asylum seekers | | Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - The UN refugee agency in Namibia has shut
its doors against Sierra Leonean asylum seekers, saying it will, in
collaboration with Namibia's home affairs ministry, repatriate 22
Sierra Leonean refugees currently in the country.
14/01/2009 full text... |
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| Guinea has highest African refugees in Belgium | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgium granted political refugee status to 12,252 fo
reign asylum seekers, including 214 Guineans (Conakry), who are the most numerou
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among Africans who benefitted in 2008, PANA learnt from offcial sources here.
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