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Contributor [1]
Thursday, October 7, 2004 - 03:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
177 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The UNHCR representative in Botswana, Benny Otim, told Angolan refugees yesterday that his office would immediately start registering those willing to return home. Otim was briefing refugees at the Dukwi refugee settlement outside the city of Francistown. His registration call comes at a time when only about 50 of an estimated 882 Angolan refugees living at the Dukwi refugee camp has registered for voluntary repatriation.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/25003 [5]
Country: 
Botswana [6]

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