Thursday, January 22, 2009

Tens of thousands have fled Zim for South Africa in past 5 months

Zimbabwe’s worsening humanitarian, economic and political situation forced over 100 000 people to claim asylum in South Africa in 2008, according to pressure group Human Rights Watch. The group have released a report saying at least 30 000 claimed asylum in the last 5 months of 2008, a period that started after the violent June one man presidential run-off, and this figure was double the total number of Zimbabwean claims made in all 6 of South Africa’s refugee reception offices in 2007. The figure is also more than half of the total number of asylum claims made by all nationalities in South Africa in those offices the same year. It’s now believed there is a backlog of at least 200 000 Zimbabwean asylum cases in South Africa.

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Posted by Joshua on 01/22 at 07:34 AM
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