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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. -
UNHCR helps Congolese refugees return from Mozambique
12 Jun 2007 The UN refugee agency has begun an airlift to repatriate refugees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from Mozambique. A total 112 refugees were flown on Monday and Tuesday to Kigoma in Tanzania, where they will board a boat and cross Lake Tanganyika to DRC. -
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. -
Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia clamour for repatriation to southern Sudan
5 Apr 2007 UNHCR plans this year to assist the return of some 18,000 of the 57,000 Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia. But growing numbers of Sudanese want to go back home immediately. -
New repatriation corridors open from Ethiopia to southern Sudan
12 Mar 2007 Two new repatriation corridors from western Ethiopia to south Sudan opened at the weekend, paving the way for the return home of thousands of refugees. The first two convoys, carrying more than 800 Sudanese refugees, set off from camps in western Ethiopia. -
UNHCR emergency team assesses needs in northern Somalia's Galkayo region
15 Jan 2007 A four-member UNHCR emergency team has been assessing the needs of thousands of displaced people in the Galkayo region of northern Somalia. The team is expected to pave the way for a permanent international presence in the region for the first time since the 1990s. -
UNHCR sends supplies, emergency teams to Somalia and Ethiopia
12 Jan 2007 The UN refugee agency has begun airlifting supplies to Somalia and has also dispatched emergency teams to verify reports of new displacement in north-east Somalia and a possible influx of Somali refugees into eastern Ethiopia.