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Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 02:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
142 [3]
Article-Summary: 

At least 10,000 Congolese, mostly illegal miners, have been expelled from Angola since December 2003 under inhumane conditions, a Congolese human rights organisation said on Thursday. "They were forced back by the military and hundreds of others have been arrested and detained in subhuman conditions," Dolly Ibefo, vice-president of the rights body, Voice of the Voiceless (Voix des Sans Voix), said.

Category: 
Land & Environment [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/19799 [5]
Country: 
Democratic Republic of Congo [6]

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