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Angolan refugees start their journey home on World Refugee Day
20 Jun 2003 The UN refugee agency has started a major repatriation operation to help an estimated 220,000 Angolan refugees return home over the next two years. The first convoys left from camps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with more convoys expected to follow from Namibia and Zambia in July. -
UNHCR to start Angolan returns with pilot run
3 Jun 2003 Some 400 Angolan refugees from Zambia are set to go back to Angola's Cazombo commune in a pilot convoy by the UN refugee agency on June 12. With registration underway in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many more could follow when repatriation starts officially on June 20. -
Angolan refugees in Congo sign up for voluntary return
26 May 2003 The UN refugee agency has started registering Angolan refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to see who wants to repatriate and who wants to stay. While many know it won't be easy, they are still eager to go home to rebuild Angola. -
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.