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UNHCR starts airlift from Namibia to Angola's central highlands
24 Sep 2004 The first flight from Namibia's Osire camp to Angola's Huambo province brought 105 refugees home. Twice-weekly flights will follow, bringing more than 400 Angolan refugees home every week. -
African Union Ambassadors meet refugees in Sierra Leone
23 Sep 2004 A high-level African Union delegation has completed a West Africa mission, where they met Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone and Côte d'Ivoire to see refugee situations first hand and determine what the AU can do to improve their lives as part of a new plan of action in Africa. -
First refugees sign up for return to Liberia
23 Sep 2004 On the first day of registration, more than 100 Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone's Gondama camp booked themselves seats on the first return convoy set to cross back into Liberia on October 1. -
UNHCR starts registering Liberian refugees for return from Sierra Leone
21 Sep 2004 The refugee agency has started registration in eastern Sierra Leone's Gondama and Tobanda camps after informing the refugees about their home conditions, repatriation and reintegration assistance, and other details. The facilitated repatriation will start in October. -
Pace of Angolan returns from Zambia slower than expected, says UNHCR
17 Sep 2004 Only one-fifth of this year's expected number has returned to Angola so far due to logistical problems like poor road conditions, broken bridges and the presence of landmines. But increased airlift capacity could bring numbers up. -
Liberian government declares four counties safe for return ahead of UNHCR repatriation
16 Sep 2004 Two weeks before the start of UNHCR's voluntary repatriation to Liberia, the government has declared Bomi, Gbarpolu, Grand Cape Mount and Margibi counties safe for return. Meanwhile, the agency and its partners continue rehabilitation projects that will help the returnees settle back home. -
Liberian refugees take first steps towards new life in US
26 Aug 2004 Sixteen Liberian refugees have left years of exile in Sierra Leone to start afresh in the United States under a resettlement programme that started in June. They know that life will not be easy in the beginning, but are eager for the chance to live in peace. -
Liberian returnees find out it takes more than resilience to remain home
25 Aug 2004 Liberians impatient to return home after 14 years of civil war are finding out that it takes more than resilience to begin a new life in their villages in the face of so much destruction, lack of income-earning opportunities and insecurity in some places. -
Angolan refugees airlifted home from Kinshasa
24 Aug 2004 As part of efforts to boost UNHCR's repatriation programme to Angola, 215 Angolan refugees were flown home on a UN-chartered flight from Kinshasa to Luanda last weekend. Land convoys also received a boost with the opening of a new corridor between Zambia and Angola last week.