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Western Saharan refugees to meet long-lost families
5 Mar 2004 For the first time in decades, Saharan refugees will be able to meet the spouses, children and relatives they left behind, as UN agencies start weekly shuttle flights between Western Sahara and Algeria's camps. -
Ringing the changes for Western Sahara's exiles
14 Jan 2004 The UN refugee agency has established a phone link between refugees in a camp in Algeria and their relatives back in Western Sahara. UNHCR is also negotiating to start a mail service and family visits as part of a new package of confidence-building efforts for one of the world's oldest refugee groups. -
Western Saharan refugees need food aid urgently, say UNHCR, WFP
19 Dec 2003 High levels of malnutrition and anaemia among long-time refugees in western Algeria's camps have prompted the UN refugee agency and the UN World Food Programme to appeal for urgent contributions and speedy delivery of food aid. -
Western Saharan refugees may soon be able to visit, call home
16 Dec 2003 The UN refugee agency has joined a high-level UN mission to meet Algerian and Moroccan officials this week that will discuss proposals to re-establish links between Saharawi refugees and their families in Western Sahara through direct phone, mail and even travel services. -
Funding cuts leave Saharan refugees high and dry
24 Oct 2002 Lack of sufficient funding means that the UN refugee agency has postponed for yet another year needed improvements in the water distribution network for one of the oldest refugee camps in the world. -
Western Saharan refugees receive aid from UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
13 Sep 2002 UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has donated $100,000 for urgently needed food aid for Western Saharan refugees, people who have spent nearly 30 years in windswept desert camps waiting to return home. -
Western Saharan refugees face malnutrition, warn aid agencies
29 Aug 2002 More than 35 percent of the children in camps along Algeria's border with Western Sahara are chronically malnourished, says the UN refugee agency. More are at risk if food aid and funds are not forthcoming, adds the World Food Programme. -
Conditions in Western Saharan refugee camps worsen as exile lengthens, food aid wanes
28 Mar 2002 Relief workers assisting refugees from Western Sahara in four camps in Algeria report deteriorating health and nutritional conditions, particularly among women and children living in the remote 27-year-old camps.