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Visiting students get into refugees' good books in Zambia
8 Aug 2005 A group of American undergraduates has started a 25,000-book library and Internet café in Zambia's Meheba refugee settlement as part of an initiative known as FORGE, or Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment. -
Returning to the Angolan enclave of Cabinda
3 Aug 2005 A group of 52 Angolan refugees in the Republic of the Congo have made the first organised return since 2003 to the oil-rich Angolan enclave of Cabinda. Relatives have told them the situation is calm, while Cabinda authorities say return conditions are in place. -
First Angolan refugees return home from south of Kinshasa
2 Aug 2005 UNHCR has started a new phase in its Angola return operation, helping to repatriate Angolan refugees who have been living outside camps and settlements in the Congolese region of Kasangulu. -
Zambia Initiative spreads to North-Western province
26 Jul 2005 The Zambian government and UNHCR are expanding a rural development programme that has boosted crop production and improved health and education facilities for tens of thousands of people in Zambia's refugee-hosting areas. -
UNHCR starts new season of returns from Botswana to Angola
15 Jul 2005 With the end of the rainy season in Botswana, UNHCR this week started the year's first flights carrying Angolan refugees in Dukwi camp back to Huambo province in central Angola. Road convoys to Kuando Kubango province are expected to start within weeks. -
First return convoy takes Congolese refugees in Angola home
20 Jun 2005 In a reverse of the usual flow of refugees, the UN refugee agency last week organised the first convoy for 42 Congolese living in Angola to return home to western Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. -
Angolan refugees help to rehabilitate Congolese camps
3 Jun 2005 Angolan refugees and their local hosts in Nkondo and Kilueka villages are working together to plant 60,000 trees in the area after the repatriation of some 20,000 refugees to Angola. -
Congolese sites close as last Angolan refugees leave
30 May 2005 A last convoy of 263 Angolan refugees has returned home from refugee sites in the southern Congolese region of Kisenge, ending a refugee programme that ran for more than 20 years. -
UNHCR starts last season of Angola-bound flights from Zambia
17 May 2005 More than 200 Angolan refugees flew home from Zambia yesterday as the UN refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration started the last season of airlifts to Angola.
