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/ 17 December 2004
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday appealed for -million to feed about 224 000 refugees who face food shortages in Kenya. ”Less and less food has been reaching refugee families. It will get continually worse unless contributions come forward urgently,” said Tesema Negash, the WFP’s country director in Kenya.
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/ 17 November 2004
The British government is to end its two-year suspension of deportations of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe because the concession has been abused, the immigration minister, Des Browne, announced on Tuesday. Browne insisted there had been no change in the government’s opposition to human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
Zuma: SA does not take sides in Zim
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/ 17 November 2004
The British government is to end its two-year suspension of deportations of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe because the concession has been abused, the Immigration Minister, Des Browne, announced on Tuesday. Browne insisted there had been no change in the government’s opposition to human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
Zuma: SA does not take sides in Zim
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/ 8 November 2004
A vast effort by the United Nations refugee agency and the Liberian government to return an estimated 500 000 internally displaced people to their home counties was poised to begin on Monday. The operation is seen as a key step in helping Liberia prepare for elections set for October next year.
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/ 10 October 2004
More than 1 000 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) refugees were still stuck on Saturday night in a strip of no man’s land between their country and neighbouring Burundi, despite promises by a DRC official that they would be allowed home. Civilians on the DRC side of the border erected barricades on Saturday.
The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has prevented 1 100 refugees returning home from Burundi, leaving them stuck in no-man’s-land between the two countries, officials said on Thursday. The trucks had been rented privately and the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, was not involved in this impromptu repatriation attempt.
Ahmed Idris’s wife is preparing the family’s only meal of the day and there is not enough for their 11 children running around their two little shelters in the middle of the Zamzam refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region. The children, some of them with distended bellies, appear malnourished, although their mother says the quantity of the food rations they get has increased considerably in recent months.
Nigerian troops set off for Darfur
There is a meat market, where haunches of goat hang from the thatched roof. There are tea stalls and shacks selling hair mousse and skin cream. Some women dig vegetable plots while their neighbours shape clay and water with their bare hands to build new houses. The refugee camp at Iridimi, in north-eastern Chad, is home to 15 000 people who have fled the violence in Darfur.
Sudanese authorities have restored aid deliveries to a camp for 90 000 displaced people in Darfur, United Nations officials said, three days after soldiers reportedly closed the camp following a mob killing of an alleged pro-government militiaman. More than 400 Sudanese fled Darfur to Chad during the weekend, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ spokesperson for east Chad said on Monday.
Darfur’s messenger of peace
More than 160 Tutsi Congolese refugees massacred at a border camp were buried on Monday, as the African Union said it was sending a team to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate the deaths. Nigeria’s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, chairperson of the 53-member AU, on Monday denounced the attack, which took place on Friday, by extremist Hutus.
UN suspends talks with Burundi rebels