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| Refugees | | Last Updated 14/11/2009 15:58:00 |
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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
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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.
04/04/2009 full text... |
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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
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, 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.
09/01/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR launches appeal fund for Somali refugees in Kenya | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency Friday launched an appeal for US$
92 million to ease the plight of nearly 250,000 Somalis in one of the world's ol
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est, largest and most congested refugee sites amid growing fears of even more ar
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ivals as the situation in Somalia deteriorates.
19/12/2008 full text... |
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| 20 drown in Aden Gulf crossing | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - At least 20 people drowned off the coast of
Yemen earlier in the week and two were reported missing after
smugglers carrying them across the Gulf of Aden from the Horn of
Africa forced them to jump overboard in deep water, according to the
UN refugee agency UNHCR.
03/12/2008 full text... |
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| Renewed fighting resumes in restive eastern DRC | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Renewed fighting between rebels led by dissident Genera
l Laurent Nkunda and Kinshasa government troops in restive eastern Democratic Re
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ublic of Congo (DRC) has jeopardized efforts to secure a truce in the war-torn v
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st Central African country.
29/11/2008 full text... |
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| 1,300 Congolese refugees cross into Uganda - UNHCR | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - More than 1,300 Congolese refugees have crossed into Ug
anda through the Ishasha border point, in Kanungu District, to seek refuge from
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ighting in Eastern DRC in the past 24 hours, United Nations refugee agency repor
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ed Thursday
This group of new arrivals brings to to an estimated 15,000 the total number of
Congolese refugees who fled from Eastern DRC into Uganda since the beginning of
August 2008.
27/11/2008 full text... |
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| 75 Rwandan refugees repatriated from Malawi | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNH
CR) repatriated 45 Rwandan refugees this week, bringing the figure to 75 since t
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e beginning of voluntary repatriation of the refugees last year, a senior UNHCR
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fficial has disclosed.
23/11/2008 full text... |
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| UN relief finally reaches DR Congo refugees | | New York, US (PANA) - In a move to alleviate the suffering of those
affected by the war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the
first truckloads of food aid for starving refugees have reached camps
in the affected area, the UN said on Sunday.
17/11/2008 full text... |
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| UNHCR assistance to S/Leonean refugees ends December | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Ms. Mariam Stephanie of the United Nations High Commissi
on Regional office in Dakar, Senegal, has urged Sierra Leonean refugees under th
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protection of UNHCR here, to take an option before their tenure ends 31 Decembe
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2008.
06/10/2008 full text... |
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| 21 refugees feared dead in Sudan river | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said Wednesday that 21 ref
ugees are feared to have been drowned Tuesday night when their overloaded boat c
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psized in the Atbara River, near the Shagarab refugee camp in eastern Sudan.
25/09/2008 full text... |
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| DR Congo refugees flee to Rwanda to escape fighting | | Gisenyi, Rwanda (PANA) - Several hundreds of refugees from DR Congo
have been crossing the border with Rwanda to escape from the violent
clashes between the Congolese army and the Gen. Laurent Nkunda-led
rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), PANA
reported.
25/09/2008 full text... |
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| DR Congo refugees flee to Rwanda to escape fighting | | Gisenyi, Rwanda (PANA) - Several hundreds of refugees from DR Congo
have been crossing the border with Rwanda to escape from the violent
clashes between the Congolese army and the Gen. Laurent Nkunda-led
rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), PANA
reported.
25/09/2008 full text... |
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| UNHCR resettles 300,000 former refugees in South Sudan | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - More than half of around 500,000 Sudanese who ha
d taken refuge in seven neighbouring
countries for two decades have returned to their homeland, thanks to the Compreh
ensive Peace Agreement signed in January 2005
between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army
(SPLM/A).
19/09/2008 full text... |
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| Malawi Police round up 148 fleeing Ethiopian refugees | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Police in the central Malawi mountainous district of D
edza have rounded up 148 Ethiopians who had fled from a United Nations High Comm
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ssioner for Refugees (UNHCR)/Malawi government designated refugee camp, police s
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id here Wednesday.
17/09/2008 full text... |
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| UN trains police officers to protect refugees in Chad | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Chad and the Ce
ntral African Republic (CAR) has begun training some 200 gendarmes and police of
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icers who will be tasked with protecting refugees and displaced people in the ea
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t of Chad.
09/07/2008 full text... |
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| UN refugee agency repatriates 105 Liberian refugees in Nigeria | | Oru, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 50 Liberians refugees at the Oru camp in south wester
n Nigeria left for home Friday, bringing the figure to about 105 so far repatria
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ed in one week, under the joint United Nations High Commission for Refugee (UNHC
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) and the Nigerian government repatriation programme.
04/07/2008 full text... |
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| AU sees violence against refugees worsening | | Sharm El Sheik, Egypt (PANA) - Africa witnessed "disturbing trends" in the force
d displacements across the continent with the political crisis in Kenya and the
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iolence against African immigrants in South Africa, leaving hundreds of thousand
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of people homeless.
26/06/2008 full text... |
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