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Article: UN agency moves Central African refugees away from Chad border
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- March 18, 2008
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UN agency moves Central African refugees away from Chad border
GENEVA, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations refugee agency
has begun moving some of the estimated 14,000 refugees who recently
fled violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) away from the
border in southern Chad to more accessible areas.
Ron Redmond, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR), said at a press briefing in Geneva on Tuesday that
the first group of nearly 700 people was transferred Saturday from
the border town of Maya to a temporary transit site 25 km further
inland, near the village of Dembo.
"By the end of this week, we expect to have moved around 4,250
refugees to the Dembo site ...