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/ 27 February 2004
Thousands more Sudanese refugees have poured into eastern Chad to escape fighting in neighbouring western Sudan in recent weeks, a United Nations official said on Friday. A yearlong rebellion in Sudan has killed thousands of people and forced more than 600Â 000 others to flee their homes.
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/ 25 February 2004
The British Home Office is in negotiation with Tanzania over a £4-million aid deal to take failed Somali asylum seekers from Britain and house them in a camp, The Guardian has learned. A Home Office team went to Dar es Salaam last year for discussions with their counterparts in the Tanzanian government.
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/ 23 February 2004
Rebel fighters armed with assault rifles, artillery and rocket-propelled grenades massacred more than 190 refugees at a camp in northern Uganda on Saturday, it emerged on Sunday. Some of the refugees were gunned down while they fled, and others were burned alive when the rebels torched their grass huts.
More than two million Zimbabweans have flooded into South Africa over the past nine years to escape the repression and torture of Robert Mugabe’s vilified regime, but only 11 have been granted political asylum. In the first nine months of 2003 the South African authorities arrested and deported 41 000 Zimbabweans and sent them back across the border.
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/ 12 December 2003
South Africa appears to receive the cream of African refugees seeking safe new homes, in Africa, but their skills and experience go to waste, says a survey released Thursday by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
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/ 11 December 2003
Only 3% of African refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa were unemployed before their arrival, and two-thirds have at least the equivalent of matric, according to a new survey. Nearly a third were tertiary students before they came to South Africa, and of the rest almost 70% held skilled or semi-skilled jobs in their countries of origin.
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/ 27 November 2003
Asadullah shivers, but not on account of the icy Kabul morning. Frowning intently, he unwinds his orange turban, knots it in a ligature around his right biceps, and starts pumping his arm. He stops to examine the crook, where a blue tattoo of a girl’s face is pocked with ugly black scabs. But Asadullah (27) cannot raise a vein.
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/ 13 October 2003
An international refugee rights organisation has criticised the way in which the Ugandan government carried out the relocation of Sudanese refugees from a camp in western Uganda, which ended in riots and the arrest of some refugees. ”Refugee descriptions of the move suggest that the move was neither humane nor dignified,” Refugees International said.
A UN food agency warned on Friday that hundreds of thousands of people in Liberia are cut off from aid and risked starvation unless a peaceful solution to the country’s civil war is reached quickly.
A rescue ship is making its way to Liberia to evacuate thousands of Sierra Leonean refugees who have been caught up in the fighting in the country, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency said on Thursday.