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UNHCR hails Mauritania's new national refugee law
31 Aug 2004 Mauritania has become the first country in North Africa to adopt a national refugee law, which should pave the way for the establishment of a national legal framework for the protection of refugees and returnees, and national asylum structures for managing refugee affairs. -
Up to 2,000 flee fighting in Senegal
10 May 2002 Temporarily settled in two border towns in southern Gambia, they are adopting a wait-and-see attitude and are reluctant to move into a refugee camp further inland.