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UNHCR completes repatriation from Senegal

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    A final batch of Guinea Bissau refugees left Dakar for home by boat on Tuesday, ending the UNHCR's repatriation of these nationals from Senegal, a spokesman for the UN agency told IRIN on Wednesday.

    The UNHCR regional public information officer, Khassim Diagne, said the 159 refugees had been living in towns and cities. There were 57 children among them. The group, escorted to Bissau by officials of the UNHCR, its partners and the Senegalese Ministry of the Interior, were the last of 802 Guinea Bissau nationals who fled to Senegal during a military uprising that began in 1998.

    Diagne also said that 310 out of 720 Guinea Bissau refugees registered in Cape Verde had signed up to return home, and that 175 of them had already gone back.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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