ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES DON’T WANT TO GO HOME

SCORES of Ethiopian refugees living in Sudan are protesting to the UN High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) over a plan for them to return home or lose their refugee status. The group objects to a decision by the UNHCR to deprive them of their refugee status because the reasons that drove them from Ethiopia vanished with Mengistu Haile Meriam’s 1991 ousting. The refugees may now accept to be repatriated with UNHCR help or try to stay in Sudan with no UN food and financial aid. – AFP