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Home > Nigeria: Some refugees shun voluntary repatriation

Contributor [1]
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - 03:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
268 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Some Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees in Nigeria have attributed their seeming reluctance to return home to inadequate incentives, loss of loved ones, insecurity back home and pursuit of education. Since 2004, when the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, launched a voluntary repatriation programme for the thousands of refugees, barely 670 of them have returned home.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/36797 [5]
Country: 
Nigeria [6]

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