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Refugees Magazine Issue 111 (Universal Declaration of Human Rights 50th Anniversary) - Tanzania: A Grand Old Lady and a seven-year-old refugee
1 Mar 1998 ... 'She' is the lake steamer MV Liemba which several times a week shuttles between the Tanzanian port ... of the refugees began to return home, sometimes in more style than they left, aboard the Liemba. ...... -
Rescue on Lake Tanganyika
26 May 2015 ... On 3 May UNHCR began chartering the MV Liemba to transport the refugees to Kigoma, where there is ... Captain Titus Benjamin started working on the MV Liemba 20 years ago. While still at maritime ...... -
Cholera Strikes Burundians Seeking Safety in Tanzania
22 May 2015 ... 0 It's almost 10 p.m. as the MV Liemba motors away from Tanzania's Kagunga peninsula, on the shores ... So far, about 15,000 refugees have been taken to Kigoma, most aboard the MV Liemba. Cholera Strikes ...... -
Zambia/DRC returns resume after security incident
23 Nov 2007 ... overnight crossing of Lake Tanganyika in a 95 year-old, German-built chartered ferry, the MV Liemba. ... Two more convoys are scheduled for early next week. The MV Liemba is a commercial ferry that runs ...... -
UNHCR launches voluntary repatriation for Congolese refugees in Zambia
4 May 2007 ... This evening, the refugees are scheduled to board the chartered ferry MV Liemba, and sail some 380 kilometres along Lake Tanganyika to dock at Kalemie in the Congo's Katanga province on Saturday ...... -
Courage of Congolese refugees should be matched by solidarity of international community, says High Commissioner
28 Feb 2006 ... Since last October, the UN refugee agency has brought home more than 11,000 refugees on ships that make the crossing twice a week. The German-made MV Liemba, which brought this group home, began life ...... -
Refugee numbers soar, as uncertainty in Burundi continues
15 May 2015 ... It is surrounded by a steep mountain range on the Tanzanian side and is best accessibly by boat. On 3 May, UNHCR chartered the ageing ferry MV Liemba and started to transfer the refugees from Kagunga ...... -
UNHCR says more than 105,000 refugees have fled violence in Burundi
15 May 2015 ... Kagunga is a small village on the border between Burundi and Tanzania that is best reached by boat because of a steep mountain range on the Tanzanian side. UNHCR chartered the ageing ferry MV Liemba ...... -
Refugees Magazine Issue 120: UNHCR 50th Anniversary Issue
1 Sep 2000 ... ... Others take tractors, cars, trucks, planes and in one famous case in Tanzania, they used the vessel Liemba, a former World War I German gunboat, which later played a starring role in the Hollywood ......