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Feature: Relocated Eritrean refugees find a second home in Sudan
12 Aug 2003 Eight months after the cessation of their refugee status, some 3,000 Eritreans have been moved from their camps to another settlement in eastern Sudan as part of a plan to close and consolidate refugee camps. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Eritreans have opted to return home. -
Sudanese refugees mull over peace talks at home
8 Aug 2003 Peace talks in Sudan, set to resume on August 10, could eventually pave the way home for hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees. But while UNHCR and the other UN agencies prepare a contingency plan for possible returns, the mood is not hopeful among many Sudanese refugees in Uganda's camps. -
Hundreds of Congolese refugees in Uganda move to inland settlement
6 Aug 2003 The UN refugee agency has been urging Congolese refugees in overcrowded Ugandan villages along Lake Albert to relocate to Kyaka II settlement, where they will receive assistance like food, shelter, health care, schools and farmland. Hundreds have moved or are due to move there in recent weeks. -
New agreement helps Rwandan refugees in Uganda to go home
25 Jul 2003 Some 25,000 Rwandan refugees in Uganda now have the option of repatriation, thanks to a new agreement on voluntary returns signed between the UN refugee agency and the governments of Rwanda and Uganda. -
Eritreans head home from Sudan after decades in exile
9 Jul 2003 Eritrean refugees - some of Africa's longest-standing exiles - are returning home from neighbouring Sudan, after a months-long delay. UNHCR officials hope the return will help build confidence between the two African countries. -
Feature: Sudanese refugees running out of options in Ugandan camp
27 Jun 2003 Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda's Maaji settlement are caught in a precarious position - repeatedly attacked and displaced by rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army, yet unable to go home until peace has returned to Sudan. -
UNHCR resumes repatriation in Horn of Africa
24 Jun 2003 More than 500 refugees - Eritreans in Sudan and Somalis in Djibouti - have returned home in two separate voluntary repatriation operations by the UN refugee agency. Hundreds more are expected to follow before the onset of the rainy season in mid-July. -
UNHCR starts moving recent Congolese refugees in Uganda
6 Jun 2003 Under a joint relocation operation by the UN refugee agency and the Ugandan government, a first group of 23 Congolese refugees who recently fled fighting in Ituri district have been transferred to an existing camp in Uganda to consolidate assistance for the new arrivals. -
Congolese march to Uganda: "Soldiers before us, death behind us"
21 May 2003 More than 20,000 refugees have fled recent ethnic clashes in north-eastern Congo. Some of them marched behind retreating Ugandan troops and arrived along Uganda's Lake Albert, where many are sleeping rough in hope of returning home as soon as the situation stabilises.