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Extra plane provides boost to Angolan repatriation
1 Nov 2005 The acquisition of a second aircraft has given a significant boost to the number of Angolan refugees able to return home each week from Zambia, with a total of 22,000 now expected to return from Zambia by the end of this year. -
Angolan returnees in vanguard of fight against superstition
31 Oct 2005 In some countries, witchcraft has been reduced to a once-a-year joke to be celebrated with pumpkins and pointed hats at Halloween. In others, such as Angola, it is still a matter of life and death despite the valiant efforts of a group of dedicated returnees to steer their compatriots away from superstition and encourage good citizenship instead. -
Voluntary repatriation of Angolans accelerates as new corridor opens up in the north
19 Oct 2005 Another repatriation corridor has opened up for Angolan refugees returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the safe arrival on Wednesday of a convoy of more than 200 refugees in their home area of Sakandica in the northern province of Uíge. -
A new beginning is always hard: Liberia's elections bring hope of return for thousands of refugees
12 Oct 2005 On Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of Liberians cast their vote in the first post-war elections. Included in the queues lining up to vote were refugees who had returned home, many still unbelieving that this day had finally come. -
Angolan refugees return home from DRC on a road rebuilt by UNHCR
12 Oct 2005 As the Angolan voluntary repatriation enters its last months, UNHCR has opened up a new corridor for returns from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the diamond-rich province of Lunda Norte. Last week, refugees started travelling a new route home on a road rebuilt by UNHCR. -
Liberian refugees rebuild lives as first post-war elections get underway
11 Oct 2005 Liberians are going to the polls today (Tuesday) in the country's first elections since the end of the civil war in 2003. In the past two years, more than 400,000 displaced people and refugees have gone back to their homes in Liberia and are now trying to rebuild their lives. -
Angolan refugees face difficult route home across vast, devastated land
3 Oct 2005 For some of the refugees heading back to Angola, the return journey is long, slow and complicated - but, for the most part, people who have waited decades to return are prepared to wait patiently for a few more weeks, while the UN refugee agency searches for planes to take them home. -
Angolan refugees head home as organised repatriation enters final stage
28 Sep 2005 A major transit centre in northern Angola sees its last repatriation convoy depart, as the UN refugee agency's organized repatriation operation, which has already helped 112,000 Angolans return home enters its final phase. -
With the shooting over, Liberian students aim high
23 Sep 2005 Before it was destroyed by rampaging armed factions, Dolokelen Gboveh High School was the most prestigious government-run school in Liberia's Bong County. Now, with the help of the UN refugee agency and its partners, the school has risen from the ashes and its students are once again aiming for a better future.