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New Angolan refugees enter Zambia

    JOHANNESBURG

    More than 100 Angolan refugees have entered Zambia over the past few weeks, UNHCR told IRIN on Wednesday.

    Dominik Bartsch, spokesman for UNHCR in Lusaka told IRIN that there had been 90 new arrivals at Zambezi and 47 at Chavuma, two towns south of the Angolan/Zambia border. He said that once the new arrivals had been screened they would be transferred to the Maheba refugee camp in north-western Zambia. "The refugees are exhausted, but there are no major health concerns," he added.

    Bartsch said that most of the refugees appeared to come from the Moxico province in Angola which was under exclusive UNITA rebel movement control. He said that the refugees were trying to escape the forced conscription by UNITA. Bartsch said that this forced conscription by the rebel movement not only affected able bodied young men, but in general "affected a cross section of the population."

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