Two Namibian refugees who were among asylum seekers who fled to Botswana in 1998 have been granted refuge in Finland, ‘The Namibian’ said on Tuesday.
The report said that Finish authorities had acceded to a request by UNHCR for resettlement. This brings to four the number of Namibians resettled by UNHCR after it agreed to resettle some of the refugee outside Botswana.
Sinikka Antila, the charge d’affaires at the Finnish embassy in Windhoek was quoted by ‘The Namibian’ as saying that initially her country had agreed to grant refugee status to two Namibians before 23 May this year, but that so far only one Namibian had travelled to Finland.
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