N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- After months of separation, Justin, Benedicte and Fane, three children from the Central African Republic (CAR), who fled to Chad following the 15 March coup in their country, are to reunite with their parents, aid workers said. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- DR Congo refugees protesting the condition of their camp have attacked a humanitarian worker and damaged his vehicle at Cishemye in Burundi's north-western Cibitoke province, witnesses said Saturday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Some 35,657 Burundian refugees have returned to the country's eastern province of Ruyigi from Tanzania this year, officials said Tuesday. Full text...

N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) has brought in 33 tonnes of food and non-food relief aid for distribution this week among Sudanese refugees who have settled in eastern Chad for the past few months. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The UN agency for refugees, UNHCR is to repatriate some 145,000 DR Congo refugees from Tanzania, according to the agency official David Kapia. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Guinea has obtained a grant of 500,000 Euro from the European Union to help refugees and displaced people in the West African country, an official release said here Thursday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Wednesday said repatriation of Angolan refugees was still facing many challenges, dominated by the presence of landmines in some Angolan provinces. Full text...

Awa- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian government officials Wednesday wind up the screening of more than 3,000 Liberians at a refugee camp in Oru, 100 km north of Lagos to determine their eligibility for full refugee status, according to the authorities. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- About a thousand Eritrean refugees escorted by an official of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Ruud Lubbers, crossed the Sudanese frontier in a UN- sponsored voluntary return home, State television confirmed here Friday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers leaves for Eritrea Thursday after touring refugee camps in the central Sudanese towns of Kassala and Gedaret. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers concluded his tour here Tuesday with an appeal on the Tanzanian government to uphold its hospitality towards refugees. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency, UNHCR at the weekend repatriated 75 Congo Brazzaville refugees from Kimaza, some 160-km from Kinshasa, the DR Congo capital. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- United Nations High commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ruud Lubbers on Friday began a two-day working visit to Burundi to examine ways of accelerating the return of exiles, particularly from neighbouring Tanzania. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Some 600 Burundian refugees are stranded since Monday at a transit camp in the country's west after from neighbouring Tanzania. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda and Malawi signed a draft agreement here Tuesday on the repatriation of some 5,500 Rwandan refugees living in Malawi, official sources indicated. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Lusaka office Tuesday announced it was temporarily halting the organised voluntary repatriation of Angolan refugees from Zambia due to imminent bad roads during the rainy season in the region. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- About 408 Congolese nationals, who sought refuge in Gabon three years ago, voluntarily left Franceville (southern Gabon) Sunday for Brazzaville and Pointe Noire, an official of the UN refugee agency revealed here Monday. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- To assist 2. Full text...

N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- Washington has granted 3. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) is to provide additional emergency food aid worth 470 million CFA francs to 17,000 Nigerian refugees in Cameroon, WFP sources said. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Some 40,000 people who fled fighting in Sudan's western Darfur province urgently need food, shelter and drinking water, a charity group has said. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Sunday resumed repatriation of thousands of Eritrean refugees from Sudan, it said in a statement here. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Several hundred registered refugees from DR Congo settled in camps along the shores of Lake Albert in western Uganda are fleeing to Kampala saying they fear recent massacres in their restive home district of Ituri, bordering western Uganda. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday repatriated 11 more Rwandan refugees raising the number to 84 since April this year. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- A refugee rights agency based in the US has accused Uganda of violating the human right of 16,000 Sudanese refugees by forcefully relocating them from the mid-western to the north-western Nile region. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- A new batch of 33 Ugandan refugees was received by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR Monday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Amid signs that a ceasefire in the Darfur region of western Sudan may be "ending prematurely", tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad have to be relocated to "new, safer locations," the UN refugee agency, UNHCR said here. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The UN on Friday renewed appeals for urgent donations to provide relief supplies for some 500,000 people fleeing violence in western Sudan. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The humanitarian body Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) has deplored the continuing lack of assistance to thousands of people who have crossed into Chad to escape attacks in western Sudan's Darfur region. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency, UNHCR has launched an urgent appeal for 16. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Hunger and dehydration are threatening several thousands of Sudanese who have fled to Chad over the past two months, an international aid agency said here Thursday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) began Monday an exercise to identify refugees residing in the country, the bulk of whom are from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Rwanda, a reliable source told PANA on Wednesday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Khartoum government and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, are to repatriate Sudanese refugees from Chad, the Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported Sunday. Full text...

Arua- Uganda (PANA) -- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is burdened with re-uniting 448 Sudanese refugee minors separated from their families during a hasty relocation by government from a congested settlement in Uganda's central region to West Nile region early this month. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian administrative officials in regions bordering Senegal have been instructed to facilitate the return of Mauritanian refugees who have lived in Senegalese camps since 1989. Full text...

Ikafe- Uganda (PANA) -- More than 1,600 Sudanese refugees are unaccounted for in Uganda since they were forcefully relocated from the central region to West Nile region early this month. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese refugees have continued to flee across the border into Chad to escape militia attacks in the western Darfur State, according to the NGO, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency, UNHCR said conflicts in Africa's Great Lakes region were fuelling the influx of refugees to Malawi. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- A tripartite meeting will hold next week in Luanda, Angola to accelerate the voluntary repatriation of Angolan refugees in DR Congo, Kinshasa sources indicated Thursday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Another batch of 109 Congolese refugees has returned to Brazzaville from Kimanza zone, south-east of DR Congo, where they had taken refuge in the past five years, official sources said in Kinshasa Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania's call for sweeping reforms in the international convention on refugees fail to win support at a sub-regional meeting which ended here Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Tuesday urged the UN refugee agency, UNHCR to help repatriate thousands of Liberian refugees from Nigeria. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, Tuesday reported that it has returned home about 25,000 Angolan refugees from countries of asylum in Southern Africa under a voluntary repatriation operation started last July. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Seven African nations including are pushing for a review of the 1951 UN convention on refugees, arguing the blueprint was incapable of catering for a "humanitarian crisis requiring urgent attention. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Some 6,000 Liberian refugees in Cote d'Ivoire are due to travel to the US under a resettlement and reintegration programme, an Ivorian NGO said in Abidjan Monday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The US has contributed $28. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Zambia has repatriated nearly 10,000 Angolan refugees to their country since the programme began in July. Full text...

N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- A joint delegation of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP) has ended a mission to assess the situation of Sudanese refugees residing in eastern Chad, UN sources disclosed here Tuesday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Red Cross officials in Lusaka on Wednesday reported receiving 249 fresh refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo where sporadic violence, particularly in the eastern part of the vast country, has uprooted many families. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Serious flooding has altered initial plans to relocate thousands of Sudanese refugees from western Ethiopia, where ethnic clashes reportedly led to killings in the camp, a few months ago, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. Full text...