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<title><![CDATA[Assistant High Commissioner on mission to Great Lakes region]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ The head of UNHCR's global operations, Assistant High Commissioner Judy Cheng-Hopkins, is in Tanzania today on a two-week mission to the Great Lakes region. This afternoon, Cheng-Hopkins is attending...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Challenges remain, but long-standing Great Lakes refugee crisis eases]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The long-standing refugee crisis in the Great Lakes region continued to ease last year with tens of thousands of people criss-crossing the region to get home, but serious challenges still remain.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A decade on the run: Rwandan refugees' life mirrors the tumult of Africa's Great Lakes]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A Rwandan family's remarkable trek through the vast Congo reflects the genocide, numerous wars and other tragedies that have afflicted Africa's Great Lakes region over the past 12 years. Finally, for this family at least, there's the prospect of a happy ending.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR chief Guterres urges rich countries to invest in Great Lakes region]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[High Commissioner António Guterres called for rich countries to invest in the economic development of Africa's Great Lakes region to prevent countries slipping back into chaos. Visiting Burundi, he met Burundians struggling to rebuild their lives, and Congolese refugees in the country's north-east.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR Business Council mission to East Africa, Great Lakes]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Deputy High Commissioner Wendy Chamberlin will be going to East Africa and the Great Lakes next week with a delegation of top executives from five of the world's leading corporations. Senior executives...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR's Guterres and new Assistant High Commissioner urge more international attention for Africa's forgotten trouble spots]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Returning to Geneva from separate, weeklong missions to the Great Lakes region and to Chad, High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and his new Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, Judy Cheng-Hopkins, call on the international community to increase support for some of Africa's most forgotten trouble spots.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 6 Mar 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Commissioner wraps up visit to Great Lakes region, welcomes European Commission contribution]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ High Commissioner António Guterres is wrapping up his week-long mission to the Great Lakes region today in Tanzania after talks with senior government officials. During a field visit to Kibondo district...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Regional approach needed to address roots of displacement in Africa's Great Lakes region, says High Commissioner]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[After witnessing the optimism of refugees returning home and the despair of other groups fleeing drought and hunger, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said Friday that only a regional approach can address the complex causes of displacement in Africa's Great Lakes Region.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UN leaders urge new effort to end suffering of millions in Africa's Great Lakes region]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ 2 March 2006 BUJUMBURA - The heads of three of the largest United Nations humanitarian agencies today urged the international community to match political progress in the Great Lakes region with a new...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 2 Mar 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Joint UN heads' mission in south Kivu]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ The joint UN heads' mission to the Great Lakes region is now in DRC's eastern region of south Kivu. High Commissioner António Guterres, James Morris of the World Food Programme, and Ann M. Veneman of...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Courage of Congolese refugees should be matched by solidarity of international community, says High Commissioner]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Welcoming home Congolese refugees as they disembarked from an old imperial warship in the port town of Baraka in eastern DRC today after their voyage across Lake Tanganyika, High Commissioner António Guterres said the courage of Congolese refugees returning to a war-ravaged country short on all basic services must be matched by "the solidarity of the international community."]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Commissioner Guterres warns of huge risk for conflict again in DRC]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Warning that there is "a huge risk for conflict to rise again," UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres in Kinshasa has called on the international community to provide greater support to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's transition to full democracy for the first time in 45 years.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Joint UN heads' mission to Great Lakes region]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ As mentioned on Tuesday, the heads of WFP, UNICEF and UNHCR are scheduled to embark this weekend on their first joint mission to visit common operations in the Great Lakes region of Africa. James Morris,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UN agency heads on unprecedented trip to the Great Lakes region]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ 24 February 2006 GENEVA - The heads of three of the United Nations largest humanitarian agencies are embarking on their first joint mission to visit their common operations. On Saturday, they travel to...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Joint WFP/UNICEF/UNHCR mission to Africa]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <em>(Joint statement by the three agencies)</em> As media and the humanitarian community focus on the spreading drought in the Horn of Africa, UN humanitarian agencies are concerned that more attention...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugee return is the spark of hope in the Great Lakes]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently at the centre of various refugee return movements. Congolese refugees are returning home to eastern DRC from Tanzania, while Rwandan refugees are going back home to Rwanda after spending years in the forests of the Kivu provinces. And, those are just the major repatriation operations.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[End food cuts for Africa's refugees, urge UNHCR and WFP]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Cuts in food rations in Africa's refugee camps are threatening the health, nutrition and social stability of hundreds of thousands of refugees, warned the UN refugee agency and the World Food Programme today in an appeal to donors.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In and out of the heart of Africa]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Thousands of refugees are on the move along the edges of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the largest country in central Africa. Congolese refugees are returning home from neighbouring countries while refugees in DRC are repatriating to Angola, Burundi, Rwanda and Sudan.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 9 Aug 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR granted $5m to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa's Great Lakes region]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Programmes for refugees, returnees and host communities make up the biggest component of a $20 million grant from the World Bank announced this week to fund innovative cross-border, sub-regional responses to the epidemic in the six countries of the Great Lakes region.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lubbers starts mission to Africa's Great Lakes region and Angola]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UN refugee agency chief Ruud Lubbers has started his four-nation mission to Africa's Great Lakes region and Angola, areas where hundreds of thousands of refugees could eventually return home. However, the positive mood has been affected by shocking news of the UN headquarters' bombing in Baghdad.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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