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Rwandan unaccompanied children to go home

[Liberia] Monrovia city - religious clashes - October 2004. WFP
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    Forty-six refugee unaccompanied children will be flown by UNHCR and ICRC to Rwanda next week to be reunited with their parents, UNHCR’s Great Lakes update said. UNHCR plans to end its assistance to Rwandans in the country by the beginning of April. There are currently about 3,000 Rwandans at the Kintele camp near Brazzaville and another 2,500 in the northern sites of Loukolela and Liranga. They will be settled in a new site further from the DRC border. UNHCR last month announced it would end its assistance to Rwandans in Congo-Brazzaville due to the “militarisation” of the refugee camps. There were an estimated 11,000 Rwandan refugees in the country in mid-1998, including some 400 unaccompanied children.

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