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450 unaccompanied children in Karago

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    Most refugees in the Karago camp in Kibondo district are single mothers, and some 450 unaccompanied children have been identified in the camp, according to a UNICEF report on its emergency programmes in Tanzania. "Over 50 children have been successfully reunited through on-the-spot tracing," the report said. Karago camp was opened by UNHCR in December in response to an upsurge of refugee arrivals from Burundi. The report said
    that nearly two-thirds of the 450,000 refugees in the Kigoma and Kagera camps were children under five years old, pregnant and lactating women, children of primary school age and unaccompanied minors. For the year 2000, UNICEF requires US $6.1 million to implement its emergency activities for women and children in Tanzania's refugee camps and affected
    local communities, it added.

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