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Massive resettlement in northwest

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    Hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in northwest Rwanda have left their highly-congested camps and moved to grouped settlement sites in their sectors of origin, the Office of the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Kigali said in its February update received by IRIN today (Tuesday). Of the estimated 650,000 displaced persons who were registered in December in northwest Rwanda’s Ruhengeri and Gisenyi prefectures, 478,735 had since moved to 172 grouped settlement sites set up in the two prefectures, the report said. The movement of displaced persons under the grouped settlement process, known as “umudugudu”, was largely completed, and the displaced camps had been mostly dismantled, the report said.

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