Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- In preparation to return home with assistance from the UNHCR, some 272 Burundian refugees in Tanzania were registered Monday in Gahumbo, a frontier locality in north-eastern Burundi, according to the UN refugee agency. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has said that 65,000 Sudanese refugees who fled to Chad recently are living in miserable conditions in the north and north-east of the country. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- A Refugee Law Project (RLP) here has condemned the Ugandan government for engaging in forcible relocation of 16,000 Sudanese refugees from the secure central region to the rebel-threatened West Nile region, saying the action violates international law. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Angolan Prime Minister Fernando dos Santos has said that the social reintegration of about five million refugees from the civil war "constitute the greatest challenge" for the country. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- To end one of the most dramatic refugee exoduses in the turbulent history of Central Africa, Tanzania has deported some 910 Rwandan refugees who had been hesitant to return home. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) protested Tuesday against the forced relocation by Ugandan authorities, of thousands of Sudanese refugees to northern Uganda, charging that UN officials were also being denied access to the old camps. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- World Food Programme on Monday called for urgent contributions of food to avert malnutrition among refugees and drought victims in Rwanda. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Six Sudanese refugees died and scores sustained bullet wounds when armed local authorities in northern Uganda took refugees from Kiryandongo camp and loaded them into truck for relocation to the country's West Nile region. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- About 366 nationals of Congo (Brazzaville), who sought safety in the Kimaza refugee camp in western DR Congo five years ago, voluntarily returned home at the weekend via Kinshasa, UN refugee agency officials said Monday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Some 358 Congolese who fled the 1997 civil war to Kimanza in neighbouring DR Congo returned home on Friday through the river port of Brazzaville. Full text...

Freetown Sierra Leone (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has resumed the repatriation of Sierra Leonean refugees from Liberia, an official of the agency said in Freetown Thursday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The UN High Commission for Refugees (HCR) is ready to help Congolese refugees return to their country following the setting up of a transitional government of national unity, UNHCR official Ruud Lubbers indicated here Wednesday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Some 8,000 Angolan refugees have voluntarily returned home from DR Congo assisted by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Some 431 Burundian refugees have retured from Tanzania to Ruyigi province east of Burundi, according to Thacien Masharabu, supervisor of the committee for the reception, assistance and reintegration of disaster victims. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The Burundian and Tanzanian governments along with the UN High Commission for Refugees (HCR) began meeting here Monday to discuss the voluntary repatriation of some 500,000 Burundian refugees, some of whom have been holed up in neighbouring Tanzania for more than 30 years. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Angolan Ministry in charge of Assistance and Social Reintegration has rejected a report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) suggesting that the Luanda government and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) were forcing refugees and displaced persons to leave the transit centres. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Angolan government and the United Nations are failing to ensure the safe and voluntary return of millions of Angolans to their homes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a new report released Friday. Full text...

Ndjamena- Chad (PANA) -- The Chadian government and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, have launched capacity-building training for aid workers managing refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) in Chad as well as internally displaced Chadians. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Some Burundian refugees are fleeing camps in western Tanzania for home, driven by difficult living conditions and a cutback in food rations, according to relief agency sources. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed on Sunday that a food crisis in Kenyan refugee camps has been averted following a timely response from donor communities. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Food aid for 130,000 refugees in Ethiopia would run out by October unless contributions from international donors were received in time, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Some 16,441 Burundian refugees have returned home from neighbouring Tanzania through the north-eastern border town of Kobero since the beginning of this year, according to local administration officials. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- As shells and mortar fire continued to rock the Liberian capital Monrovia, the UN refugee agency Monday expressed grave concern for thousands of displaced people and refugees, including some 300 Sierra Leoneans whose evacuation by sea was aborted on Sunday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is to increase the number of Angolan refugees leaving Zambia, to some 1,500 persons per week, the UN agency's spokesperson, Kelvin Shimo said in Lusaka Monday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- As the Sudanese peace process reached what many are calling the make-or-break stage, many southerners who fled the country's civil war are wondering how it is going to affect them. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda, Uganda and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR have agreed to facilitate the voluntary repatriation of some 18,000 Rwandan refugees from Uganda. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- A mass repatriation of over 13,000 Congolese refugees from Gabon has been set for 1 August, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) representative Ibrahim Traore disclosed here. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Some 80 Somali refugees from Dadab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya have returned to the Somali central town of Galka'yo, 800 km north of the capital Mogadishu, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Nine unaccompanied Rwandan children aged between five and ten years have left the Congolese capital to rejoin their families in Gisenyi, Rwanda, an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) source revealed here Monday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Over 500 Angolan refugees eager to return home left Meheba refugee settlement in north-western Zambia on Thursday for the Angolan town of Cazombo from where they will be scattered to their home areas. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Angolan refugees in Zambia's Meheba settlement have been selling off their belongings, including houses, farms and livestock, as they make their way home. Full text...

Solwezi- Zambia (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, Friday repatriated a batch of 500 Angolans from the Meheba refugee camp in north-western Zambia after nearly four decades of living in exile. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The Zambian office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) may repatriate the first group of 440 Angolan refugees starting next Friday, UNHCR official Kelvin Shimo hinted here Tuesday. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended operations in Guinea, following the collapse of a wooden bridge on the road linking Gueckedou to Macenta, southern Guinea, the UN agency confirmed here Friday in a press release. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- A non-governmental legal advocacy organisation, Law Reform Project (LRP), has warned the Ugandan government against confining large numbers of refugees in one place, saying they could easily turn hostile. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Four West African refugees have been detained at the Coronthie prison for allegedly attacking the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) offices in Conakry, official said here Thursday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan's civil war, Africa's longest, has led to the deaths of an estimated two million people. Full text...

Tabou- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- At least 30,000 Liberians fleeing the war in their country have sought refuge in the Ivorian border town of Tabou, 812 km northwest of Abidjan, according to local administrators. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan government said Wednesday it had restored calm at the Kakuma refugee camp, where fighting between Sudanese refugees and the local population left 11 people dead. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan Members of Parliament on Tuesday pressed the government to take urgent measures to end a raging conflict that has killed 11 refugees and locals at a refugee camp in the country's north. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, Tuesday repatriated 15 Rwandan refugees from Zambia to their country under an on-going voluntary repatriation programme. Full text...

Pointe Noire- Congo (PANA) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) on Friday repatriated 60 Congolese refugees from neighbouring Gabon. Full text...

Bangui- Central African Republic (PANA) -- Three thousand refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) living in the Molangué camp, 120-km from here took advantage of Friday's World Refugee Days to press for their repatriation. Full text...

Oru- Nigeria (PANA) -- Hundreds of Liberians fleeing fresh hostilities in their country have started arriving at the Oru refugee camp in south-western Nigeria. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia Friday joined in marking the third World Refugee Day, under the theme 'refugee youth building the future' which is designed to recognise 20 million men, women and children who are refugees. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The US government will this year provide US$2. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Between 200 and 300 refugees and asylum seekers enter Malawi every month, threatening the government's meagre resources and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' capacity to house them all comfortably. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Hundreds of refugees gathered in Cape Town on Friday to mark World Refugee Day, set up by the UN to remind the world of the plight of these fellow unfortunate people. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Guinea-Bissau is hosting 9,449 refugees, all from the West African sub-region, the executive secretary of the National Commission for Refugees, Alsau Sambou, affirmed here Thursday. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Eleven new cases of cholera have been reported in Kyangwali refugee camp in Hoima district, 240 kilometres Northwest of the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Full text...