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Contributor [1]
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 - 02:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
233 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Tens of thousands of refugees in the Great Lakes region have started returning home, but without adequate support they could reignite conflicts and end up joining the millions of people displaced within their own countries, said Dennis McNamara, director of the UN Inter-Agency Internal Displacement Division. He said there were currently only three million refugees in all of Africa - but over 11 million IDPs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda and Sudan.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/30758 [5]

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