The arrival of nearly 30 000 Liberian refugees in Tabou over the past two months has sent food prices soaring and triggered a health crisis in this small border town in Cote d’Ivoire.
A group representing Jewish refugees from Arab countries on Wednesday demanded compensation for property they left behind, while acknowledging that Palestinian refugees from Israel must also be dealt with fairly.
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/ 17 February 2003
A woman and three small children emerge from gloomy bush at a sunlit river bank marking Ivory Coast’s western border. On the far shore — 50 metres of swirling brown water away — is Liberia’s dark rainforest, and long-running civil war.
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/ 14 February 2003
Tanzania is scheduled to receive â,¬24-million ($26-million) from the EC this year to help meet the humanitarian needs of Burundian and Congolese refugees in the country, according to the EC Humanitarian Aid Office (Echo).
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/ 29 January 2003
The United States government is to provide $3,6-million to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, to assist in refugee emergencies in Liberia, the US embassy in the Liberian capital, Monrovia reported on Monday.
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/ 14 January 2003
The UN Refugee agency this week in a letter urged the Ivorian government, among other things, to stop recruiting refugees into the ranks of loyalist forces.
US President George Bush on Tuesday ordered the release of up to -million to aid refugees from ongoing conflicts in the Ivory Coast, Liberia and Angola.
There are almost 100 000 legalised refugees in the country, the Department of Home Affairs said on Thursday, World Refugee Day.
Dar Es Salaam | Tuesday MORE than 16 000 refugees from Burundi who are living in camps in western Tanzania have registered for voluntary repatriation, an official with the United Nations refugee agency in Dar Es Salaam said on Monday. ”Registration of refugees who are voluntarily ready to return to Burundi is going on smoothly […]
Some one million Afghans have now flocked back to their homeland this year in what is set to be the biggest return of refugees ever seen.