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Ethiopia-Sudan repatriation resumes with convoy of 610 people
17 Dec 2007 UNHCR's suspended repatriation operation for Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia resumes with a convoy carrying 610 people going home. -
UNHCR helps victims of floods in Puntland town
15 Nov 2007 The UN refugee agency has distributed aid to thousands of people affected by strong rains which swept across northern Somalia and the port of Bossaso earlier this month. -
UNHCR condemns Sudan's recent deportation of Ethiopian refugees
11 Oct 2007 The UN refugee agency on Thursday condemned the recent deportation by Sudan of at least 15 Ethiopian refugees. The deportation took place on September 27, but UNHCR only learned of it this week, the agency said. -
"Lost Boy" among graduates ending Ethiopian exile to help rebuild South Sudan
17 Aug 2007 As peace and stability return to South Sudan, young refugees educated overseas and armed with college degrees are returning to help rebuild their homeland, where years of war have ravaged the economy and infrastructure. -
Young stowaway hopes to stop running and finally find a home
14 Aug 2007 A refugee almost by birth, stateless youth Elias Sagaad has fled from Africa to Indonesia, taking risks that would daunt explorer Indiana Jones. He hopes now to finally find peace in a new home in a resettlement country. -
UNHCR starts relocation in Ethiopia of 4,000 Somali refugees
17 Jul 2007 The UN refugee agency has reopened a camp in eastern Ethiopia and begun relocating some 4,000 Somali refugees there from an overcrowded settlement close to the border with Somalia. -
Eritrean refugees fly out of Ethiopia for a new life in the United States
5 Jul 2007 The UN refugee agency has begun the resettlement in the United States of some 700 ethnic Kunama refugees from Eritrea, flying out a first group of 29 from their current home in northern Ethiopia. -
Last Ethiopia-Sudan repatriation convoy of the season as rains set in
7 May 2007 A convoy carrying 618 refugees, including a new-born baby, has arrived in the southern Sudan's Blue Nile state, bringing an end to UNHCR's 2006-2007 dry season repatriation programme from camps in Ethiopia. -
Ethiopia's repatriation to South Sudan reaches 20,000 mark
26 Apr 2007 The UN refugee agency's voluntary repatriation programme from Ethiopia to South Sudan reached a new high point this week when a road convoy from Fugnido camp - some 900 kilometres west of Addis Ababa - brought the 20,000th returnee home to the Upper Nile State.