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New agreement to help Congo's Angolan refugees return home
31 Mar 2003 More than 163,000 Angolans in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are set to go home under a repatriation agreement between the UN refugee agency and the Angolan and Congolese governments, who have decided on border crossings, travel documents and immigration formalities for the returnees. -
UNHCR meets regional governments to finalise Angolan return plans
14 Mar 2003 The UN refugee agency has been meeting with the governments of Angola, Namibia and Zambia to finalise benchmarks and concrete plans for the repatriation of some 150,000 Angolan refugees as early as May. -
More than 200,000 Angolans say they want to go home this year
28 Feb 2003 This figure is based on surveys and estimates of Angolan refugees in Zambia and parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Despite a shortage of funds, UNHCR has been working steadily to prepare for the repatriation operation in May or June. -
Feature: Angolans confident about repatriation, says UNHCR
2 Dec 2002 Aid agencies are bracing for the daunting task of bringing home hundreds of thousands of Angolans driven from their country by almost three decades of war that left the diamond- and oil-rich African country in ruins, creating one of the continent's largest populations of uprooted people. -
Angola signs repatriation agreements with UNHCR, Namibia and Zambia
28 Nov 2002 After decades of conflict, some 450,000 Angolan refugees in southern Africa can finally return home with the signing of separate repatriation agreements between the governments of Angola, Namibia, Zambia and UNHCR. Similar agreements with other countries in the region are expected to follow. -
No repatriation agreements yet, but over 70,000 Angolan refugees have gone home, says UNHCR
15 Nov 2002 As the UN refugee agency prepares to sign a series of formal repatriation agreements to Angola, more than 70,000 Angolan refugees and 860,000 internally displaced Angolans are believed to have already returned to embrace the fragile peace in their homeland. -
Feature: Angolan children at Zambia camp sing praises of Italy
12 Nov 2002 Six months after performing in the "Pavarotti and Friends" concert in Italy, 30 Angolan refugee children at Nangweshi camp still speak fondly of the experience. The concert has raised close to Euros 3 million for Angolan refugees in Zambia, and offered hope to children who have never known life beyond the camp. -
UNHCR intensifies efforts to cope with Angolan returns
30 Jul 2002 The UN refugee agency works to increase its presence in main areas of return as nearly 8,000 Angolans return from the DRC and 4,500 from Zambia this year. These figures do not include unrecorded spontaneous returns. -
Home is where the heart is for Angolans at Osire camp
8 Jul 2002 Osire camp's most senior citizen would rather die in Namibia than return to her homeland in Angola.