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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR distributes biometric ID cards to refugees in Senegal]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR and the Senegalese government recently launched a campaign to provide biometric ID cards to some 19,000 refugees by year's end.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR completes repatriation of more than 24,000 Mauritanians]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR chief Guterres took part in a ceremony to welcome home a group of 277 refugees. He also met Malian refugees who have crossed into Mauritania]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[1 family torn apart: Parents reunite with children in Argentina ]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[On a cold night earlier this year, joy came back into Sané's life when he and his wife were reunited with their two eldest children after more than a decade.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 2 Nov 2011 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Repatriation for Mauritanian refugees resumes from Senegal]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (Monday) morning, UNHCR resumed its repatriation operation for Mauritanian refugees from Senegal following a 10 month break. We transported a first group of 121 passengers to the southern Mauritanian...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR resumes repatriation of Mauritanian refugees in Senegal]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR transports 121 Mauritanian refugees by vehicle and boat from Senegal to their homeland, resuming a stalled repatriation operation.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Final phase of organized repatriation from Senegal to Mauritania begins]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[This week we began the final stage of the organized voluntary repatriation of Mauritanian refugees from Senegal. By the end of December, 5,000 to 7,000 refugees are expected to return. The end of this...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR helps more than 10,000 Mauritanians return home]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The number of Mauritanian refugees helped home from Senegal with assistance from UNHCR after years in exile tops the 10,000 mark.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Boost for the reintegration of Mauritanian returnees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Mauritanian refugees receive good news as Mauritanian authorities move closer to granting national ID papers to returnees from countries like Senegal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Senegal: Voluntary repatriation of Mauritanian refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ UNHCR is picking up its repatriation operation from Senegal with a second convoy yesterday (Thursday) bringing home more than 250 Mauritanians. We plan to step up the pace of voluntary returns and organize...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mauritania repatriation operation picks up with second convoy]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR conducts a second repatriation convoy for Mauritanian refugees in Senegal, stepping up the operation launched in January.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Launch of voluntary repatriation for Mauritanian refugees from Senegal]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ UNHCR is today carrying out the first repatriation of Mauritanian refugees from Senegal. The programme aims to help up to 24,000 Mauritanian refugees return home on a voluntary basis after some 20 years...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[First Mauritanian refugees return home after 20-year exile]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The UN refugee agency launches a repatriation operation for up to 24,000 Mauritanian refugees in Senegal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tripartite meeting on the return of Mauritanian refugees from Senegal]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ A Tripartite Commission involving the governments of Mauritania and Senegal and UNHCR met for the first time yesterday to discuss the upcoming return of Mauritanian refugees currently in Senegal. The...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR to start repatriating Mauritanians from late January]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The UN refugee agency and the governments of Mauritania and Senegal have agreed to start repatriating some 24,000 Mauritanian refugees from January 28.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tripartite agreement on return of Mauritanian refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ The governments of Mauritania and Senegal, together with UNHCR, signed in Nouakchott on Monday afternoon a tripartite agreement paving the way for the return of some 24,000 Mauritanian refugees. The signing...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR signs accord for repatriation of Mauritanians]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The UN refugee agency signs an agreement with Senegal and Mauritania that will pave the way for the repatriation of some 24,000 Mauritanians.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mauritania to let 20,000 refugees return home from Mali and Senegal]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Mauritanian government has decided to allow some 20,000 refugees to return home from neighbouring Mali and Senegal, where some of them have spent almost two decades in exile.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gambia: New arrivals from Senegal]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Refugees from Senegal's southern Casamance region continue to arrive in Gambian villages along the border. Over 800 arrived across the border between Senegal and Gambia during the second half of October,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gambian border villages flooded with refugees from Senegal]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Amid reports of a fresh offensive by the Senegalese armed forces against separatists in the country's Casamance region, thousands of people have sought shelter in neighbouring Gambia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gambia: Senegalese arrivals from Casamance]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ UNHCR has learned that about 1,000 people fled from southern Senegal's Casamance region into neighbouring Gambia over the weekend, following renewed clashes between the Senegalese army and separatist...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2002 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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