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Rwandan cooperative shows reconciliation needed to draw refugees home
8 Feb 2006 A coffee cooperative linking both sides of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is an example of the reconciliation that UNHCR hopes can draw refugees home, a vital part of creating peace and stability in the region. -
Refugee return is the spark of hope in the Great Lakes
6 Jan 2006 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. -
Teenagers celebrate New Year in Burundi after returning home from Rwanda
3 Jan 2006 Two teenage Burundian refugees are celebrating the New Year back home in Burundi with their families after returning from half a year unaccompanied in exile in Rwanda. -
Rwandan refugees in Malawi encouraged to return after 'go-and-see' visit
28 Dec 2005 Josephine, a Rwandan refugee living in Malawi, recently made a brief and emotional return to Rwanda. She was on a UNHCR-organized "go-and-see" visit designed to give her and other refugees still in Malawi a clearer picture of what life is really like at home, 11 years after the genocide and civil war that caused them to flee. -
Refugees cook up appreciation for the environment in Rwanda
14 Nov 2005 During a recent Environment Week ceremony in Kiziba Camp in Rwanda, Congolese refugees were given a Blind Taste Test to see if they preferred beans and corn cooked over traditional open wood fires to those brewed up on new environmentally-friendly stoves. There was no clear winner - which in itself was a victory for the new stoves which consume 20 percent less fuel. -
Transit site closes in Rwanda as last Burundians leave
9 Sep 2005 A year after it received the first of hundreds of refugees from Burundi, Gikonko transit site in southern Rwanda has closed as the refugees either opt to return home with UNHCR assistance or to move to a nearby camp. -
Rwandan women lead the way home from Brazzaville
25 Aug 2005 Rwandan refugees Faustine and Immaculée recently joined a group on a go-and-see visit to Rwanda, and returned to their host country, the Republic of the Congo, to share their observations on how life has improved back home. They plan to be on the next airlift back to Rwanda. -
New agreement paves way home for Burundians from Rwanda
19 Aug 2005 Thousands of Burundian refugees could be on their way home under a tripartite agreement on voluntary repatriation from Rwanda signed between the two governments and the UN refugee agency yesterday. -
Rwandan refugees come out of the woods in Kivu region
4 Aug 2005 Through 20 assembly points in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, UNHCR has been repatriating a monthly average of 800 Rwandan refugees who had been hiding for over a decade in the dense forests of the Kivus.