DENNIS BARNETT, Bangui | Wednesday 3.30pm. ALMOST 13000 people, including 6000 Democratic Republic of Congo government troops, have fled the northern Gbadolite region for neighbouring Central African Republic. The exodus follows the capture of Gbadolite, the home town of late Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, by a DR Congo rebel movement. “This presence is worrying,” […]
Elias Chitenje The Democratic Republic of Congo security force members who fled into Zambia from the upsurge in fighting have been relocated pending their repatriation. The 650 armed soldiers and 250 policemen were relocated during the week from Kaputa to Chililabombwe near the Zambia/Congo border. They have separated from more than 7 000 civilian refugees. […]
THE number of Namibian refugees from the Caprivi region who have poured into Botswana seeking asylum now stands at 2501. Principal officer in the Office of the President in Botswana, Ross Sanoto, said that although the Refugee Advisory Council has determined the refugee status of more than 2000 Namibians, it has not yet forwarded its […]
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/ 26 February 1999
Howard Barrell A hiatus in attempts to bring peace to Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo is threatening catastrophe in Central Africa with dangerous spin-offs for neighbouring states, including South Africa. Security analysts are warning that Central African could become a wasteland of wandering, starving people excluded from tiny pockets of economic activity conducted […]
SOME 2000 Namibian refugees who fled the Caprivi Strip during a recent crackdown on secessionists will know “within days” if they are to be granted political in Botswana. According to a spokesperson of the Botswana government, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees is expected to finish interviewing the asylum seekers within the next few […]
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/ 13 November 1998
Ann Eveleth : In the Act Civilian victims of the latest series of conflicts afflicting Southern Africa will welcome the news that South Africa’s first- ever Refugees Bill is rapidly traversing the corridors of power. More than three decades after anti-colonial and civil wars first engulfed the region – creating large numbers of refugees – […]
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/ 6 November 1998
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 1.30pm. THOUSANDS of people from across Africa are streaming to South Africa seeking refugee status, most of them under false pretences, Home Affairs Deputy Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said in Parliament on Thursday. Speaking during debate on a new Refugees Bill that will bring the country’s laws dealing with refugees […]
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/ 12 October 1998
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Dar es Salaam | Monday 11.30pm. A TOTAL of 10,367 refugees from fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrived in western Tanzania since the start of fighting there two months ago, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Monday. A group of 147 were registered in Kigoma on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 10.00pm. A REFUGEE system that considers people’s rights is the aim of the Refugees Bill tabled in Parliament on Thursday. The draft legislation sets out new ways for dealing with refugees in line with United Nations standards and under the supervision of an independent refugee affairs committee. It proposes […]
WEDNEDAY, 12.00NOON: CHERRYL KENNEDY, the white South African woman who has applied for political asylum in Australia on the grounds that she has been persecuted by affirmative action in South Africa, has lost her case. The Australian Refugee Review Tribunal on Wednesday upheld an Immigration Department ruling that she had no grounds for her claims […]