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Pontoons loaned by Belgian government speed up returns from Tanzania to DRC
1 Dec 2005 The Belgian government's loan of six pontoons - that help refugees board a ship to cross Lake Tanganyika - has made it possible for UNHCR to double the number of returns every week from Tanzania to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. -
Tanzania: New repatriation to DRC launched
11 Nov 2005 -
New repatriation programme launched, as ferry takes Congolese home to South Kivu
11 Nov 2005 A group of some 500 Congolese returned this week by ferry to their home province of South Kivu, where they were welcomed by a jubilant crowd, as the UN refugee agency followed up a series of successful pilot operations by launching its full organized repatriation programme from Tanzania. -
Funding: Burundi repatriation/reintegration operation at risk
28 Oct 2005 -
Funding crisis endangering return hopes of thousands of Burundians
28 Oct 2005 -
Funding crisis threatens return hopes of thousands of Burundian refugees
28 Oct 2005 The UN refugee agency warned on Friday it will have to reduce or even suspend its biggest voluntary repatriation in Africa unless it quickly receives the money it has been calling for to help hundreds of thousands of Burundian refugees return home. -
Refugee 'special envoy' checks out situation back home in Burundi
27 Oct 2005 Thirty-three years after fleeing war in Burundi, Joyce Uwimana is making a brief trip home - one of ten refugees chosen as "special envoys" by thousands of her compatriots in Tanzania who are now eagerly awaiting her appraisal of what life is like in their homeland. -
Trial run for Tanzania/DRC repatriation
14 Oct 2005 -
Trial run paves way for major new repatriation in Africa back to DRC
14 Oct 2005 The UN refugee agency is about to launch a major new repatriation in Africa that could help up to 150,000 Congolese refugees in Tanzania return to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. During a trial run this week, some 280 refugees were repatriated to South Kivu province.