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/ 14 November 2001

Taliban gun down refugees in cold blood

MARTIN PARRY, Quetta, Pakistan | Wednesday THE Taliban are slaughtering Afghans who try to flee the country, gunning them down in cold blood, refugees who have made it to Pakistan claim. On the outskirts of this southwestern Pakistan town, near the Afghan border, thousands of ”invisible” refugees exist in abject poverty. They have fled because […]

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/ 19 October 2001

‘Fewer’ human rights for refugees, say locals

Khadija Magardie A newly released study on attitudes towards foreigners, particularly refugees, shows that public awareness on the human rights of asylum-seekers has still to take root on South African soil. Earlier this year, the World Conference against Racism attempted to raise the issue of xenophobia, or anti-foreigner sentiment in many parts of the world, […]

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/ 12 August 2001

ANGOLAN REFUGEES REPATRIATED FROM CONGO

THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Saturday that 400 Angolan refugees had been repatriated from the neighbouring Republic of Congo. ”They arrived on Friday in Cabinda province where they are restarting their lives,” Julie Stewart, an external relations officer with the UNHCR, said from Cabinda. Oil-rich Cabinda is a coastal sliver of […]

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/ 24 July 2001

SUDAN’S TOPS ON REFUGEES

SUDAN had the second-largest number of refugees in Africa, after Burundi, at the start of 2001, and attempts to find solutions to this and other problems had borne limited fruit, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday. The civil war in Sudan had shown few signs of abating and continued to […]

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/ 4 July 2001

100_000 CAR REFUGEES IN DRC NEED HELP

A REBEL leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday said more than 100_000 refugees from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) were in urgent need of help. “More than 100_000 Central Africans” have crossed the Oubangui river into areas in northeast DRC controlled by the Congolese Liberation Front (FLC), said the rebel […]

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/ 3 July 2001

100,000 CAR REFUGEES IN DRC NEED HELP

A REBEL leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday said more than 100,000 refugees from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) were in urgent need of help. “More than 100,000 Central Africans” have crossed the Oubangui river into areas in northeast DRC controlled by the Congolese Liberation Front (FLC), said the rebel […]