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Article: UNHCR to repatriate 40000 refugees from Zambia in 2003
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 30, 2002
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UNHCR to repatriate 40000 refugees from Zambia in 2003
LUSAKA, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations High Commission
for Refugees(UNHCR) says it plans to repatriate 40,000 refugees by
April next year.
UNHCR Communications Officer Kelvin Shimo based in Lusaka told
journalists here Monday that another 30,000 refugees would be
repatriated in 2004.
The refugees that will be repatriated are those in refugee camps
in western and northern Zambia.
Shimo said the UNHCR have not repatriated any refugees this year
but a number of them have returned to their countries voluntarily in