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UNHCR started its voluntary repatriation operation from Uganda to Rwanda this week, kicking off what is expected to be one of the last major movements of Rwandan returnees in the region. The first 242 of some 25,000 Rwandan refugees living in Uganda returned home on Monday, under an agreement signed by the governments of the two countries and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an official told IRIN.