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Contributor [1]
Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 03:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
128 [3]
Article-Summary: 

After several years of waiting, the few hours more mattered little. Like others around him, Joseph Kayuka, sat patiently surrounded by a few precious belongings: a bench, a bicycle and some clothes, as well as pots and pans, crammed into a couple of old sacks. But, by mid morning of 1 October, Kayuka, his wife Imacule Mkingiya and their five children had boarded the truck and were riding along a bumpy road heading west back into Burundi.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/17668 [5]
Country: 
Tanzania [6]

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