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Angolan refugees want to return home

    JOHANNESBURG

    Meanwhile, some 13,000 Angolan refugees in Namibia’s northeastern Kavango region have formally asked the Angolan consulate in the northern border town of Rundu to take them home. The Angolan representative in the region, Joao Pempela, told Namibia’s news agency, NAMPA that about 15,000 Angolans in the region were all willing to go home. He added that 13,000 of them had lodged formal petitions.

    However, the Angolan Social Welfare Minister Albino Malungo was quoted as saying conditions were not currently adequate for them to return. He said the situation would be discussed at next week’s meeting with his country’s ministers of defence and interior.

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