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UN:
LAST OF CONGOLESE REFUGEES FROM CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC RETURN HOME - UN:
09/10/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 09 October 2007 -
The United Nations refugee agency today announced the end of an organized
repatriation programme which over the past three years has brought nearly 5,000
Congolese refugees home from the Central African Republic (CAR).
The last convoy traveled to the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this weekend carrying just over 130
returnees leaving the CAR capital Bangui. In total, 4,994 Congolese refugees
have returned home from CAR.
“Returns to DRC started from CAR in
October 2004, but the operation was repeatedly interrupted for security
concerns, weather, conditions in areas of return,” said Jennifer Pagonis, a
spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Since the start of the Congolese
repatriation in 2004, some 135,000 Congolese refugees have returned home from
surrounding countries – 43,000 of them since the beginning of this year,
according to UNHCR. As many as 312,000 Congolese refugees remain in neighbouring
countries – mainly in Tanzania, Zambia and Rwanda.
The DRC suffered decades of
instability and four years of civil war between 1998 and 2002, during which an
estimated 4 million people lost their lives and hundreds of thousands fled the
violence.
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