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Bid to persuade refugees to go home

    NAIROBI

    A delegation of former Rwandan refugees living in Kibungo prefecture recently visited the Ngara region of Tanzania in a bid to persuade Rwandan refugees to return home, the BBC Kinyarwanda service reported.

    It said the delegation was accompanied by about 10 government members. The refugees were shown video film depicting the situation in Rwanda. A small number decided to return voluntarily and 60 more refugees were due to visit their
    places of origin in order to report back to the camps. There are some 20,000 Rwandan refugees in Tanzania.

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