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Angolan refugees boost agriculture for camp and their Zambian hosts
22 Feb 2007 Angolans relocated by UNHCR to the Mayukwayukwa refugee settlement are on their way to becoming self-sufficient and even producing surplus crops to help feed the local Zambian population. -
UNHCR closes refugee camp, gives assets to Zambia
21 Dec 2006 The UN refugee agency on Thursday handed over the facilities in Nangweshi Refugee Camp to the Zambian government, marking the formal end of a camp that had been established seven years ago to house Angolans fleeing their civil war. -
UNHCR starts repatriation of thousands of vulnerable Angolan refugees by air
19 Dec 2006 The UN refugee agency has launched a repatriation operation for some 12,700 vulnerable Angolan refugees from Bas Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The first flight, carrying 53 refugees and sponsored by the Angolan government, took off from Kinshasa's Ndjili airport on Monday. -
UNHCR seeks support of Portuguese in Switzerland for Angola projects
22 Nov 2006 High Commissioner António Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal, addressed representatives of Switzerland's 167,000-strong Portuguese community in an event designed to raise awareness of UNHCR's work around the world and raise funds for two projects in Angola. -
Namibian refugees, some in ambulances, repatriate from Botswana
21 Nov 2006 A UNHCR-escorted convoy from Botswana has carried a group of 22 Namibian refugees back to their country. It was the second small repatriation of Namibians from Botswana this year, leaving behind about 1,100 of their countrymen who fled during a secessionist struggle in Namibia's Caprivi Strip in the late 1990s. -
Tripartite mission gives boost to repatriation of Angolans in Republic of Congo
2 Nov 2006 A recent visit by Angolan officials to the Republic of Congo has given a fillip to efforts to repatriate some 2,900 Angolan refugees. On Thursday, 65 refugees were flown to Luanda as part of the UNHCR repatriation programme, while another 200 will go home by convoy later this month. -
Angolan refugees choose repatriation or relocation as their camp in Zambia closes
19 Oct 2006 Nangweshi Refugee Camp, established during the last throes of the Angolan civil war, is steadily emptying as the 15,000 residents opt for either repatriation or relocation to a less isolated settlement that offers a better prospect for agricultural self-sufficiency. -
Refugee agency launches final phase of repatriation for Angolans in DRC
13 Oct 2006 The UN refugee agency on Friday launched the final phase of its repatriation operation for Angolan refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by starting to return home more than 20,000 Angolan refugees and their dependants from the Bas Congo region. When this phase is completed, it will mark the end of UNHCR's four-year repatriation programme for Angolan refugees. -
UNHCR starts major relocation of Angolan refugees in Zambia
2 Oct 2006 The UN refugee agency on Monday began transferring remaining Angolans from the Nangweshi refugee camp in western Zambia, starting the closure of a site that was established in 2000 to shelter people fleeing the last convulsion of the civil war in Angola.