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/ 19 January 2006
The Egyptian authorities freed more than 230 Sudanese who had been detained and threatened with expulsion after police brutally broke up a protest in Cairo, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday. Thousands of riot police wielding batons and water canons broke up a three-month sit-in in central Cairo on December 30, killing at least 28 Sudanese refugees.
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/ 18 January 2006
German ”tax refugees” dodging tough new banking laws at home are taking billions of euros across the border and depositing them in Austrian banks, said the newspaper Die Presse on Wednesday. The Banking Cooperative Federation in Germany’s Bavaria state estimated that last year alone, two billion euros (,4-billion) had flowed from its member-banks to Austria.
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/ 15 December 2005
While some of the refugees who streamed across the border from Togo into Benin by the thousands last April have finally gone home, more than 19 000 are still in exile, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The agency estimated last August that 24 500 refugees had fled east from Togo into Benin.
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/ 11 November 2005
Pakistani police using canes and rifle butts broke up a march on Friday by earthquake survivors protesting what they said were orders to evict them from a makeshift refugee camp. Police denied they were forcing people to leave. Meanwhile, international lenders estimated the economic cost of the quake at more than -billion.
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/ 31 October 2005
Three hundred Somali and Ethiopian nationals who entered Zimbabwe as refugees over the past two months have slipped out of holding centres and disappeared, the state-controlled Herald reported on Monday. ”When we made a check on them [at the holding centres], they were nowhere to be found,” Chief Immigration Officer Elasto Mugwadi told the paper.
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/ 12 October 2005
Rising sea levels, desertification and shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50-million environmental refugees by the end of the decade, experts warn on Wednesday. Janos Bogardi, director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, said creeping environmental deterioration already displaced up to 10-million people a year.
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/ 21 September 2005
A group of Somali asylum seekers have arrived in Zimbabwe after a six-month trek over 4 000km from their Horn of African nation, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. said ”at least” 26 Somalis, including two women, had surrendered to police in Harare on Monday after ”trickling into the country” in smaller groups from Mozambique.
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/ 16 September 2005
The right of refugees to work in South Africa’s private security industry — and by extension, in all fields regulated by trade or professional bodies — are crunch issues in an upcoming battle in the Pretoria High Court. The case has a crucial bearing on whether regulatory bodies can implement their own legislation — ironically, also a constitutional right.
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/ 7 September 2005
Angola’s government has given the green light for a chartered plane to bring home more than 700 refugees from Zambia who have been awaiting return for the past three weeks, a UN official said Wednesday. About 724 Angolan refugees were being kept at a makeshift camp in Mongu, about 700km west of the Zambian capital Lusaka, as UN officials awaited clearance from Luanda for the airlift.
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/ 5 September 2005
About 75 Ethiopian and Somali boat refugees are feared to have drowned when smugglers taking them to Yemen forced them to jump into the sea, with scores more missing. Forty-five bodies have been recovered on the shores of Shabwa province, said an official with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.