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UNHCR confirms refugee influx from Angola

    JOHANNESBURG

    UNHCR has confirmed that there has been an influx of Angolan refugees into Zambia in recent weeks. UNHCR said that since 8 October about 650 new arrivals had been registered in the North Western Province, with a further 200 at Kalabo in Western Province.

    UNHCR said that the recent influx of refugees was largely because of fighting between the UNITA rebel movement and government forces in Angola’s Moxico Province, which borders Zambia’s Western and North Western Provinces. The UN agency said that some of the refugees were reported to have been in a weak condition after having walked for several days before reaching Zambia. “We have already deployed relief food to Chavuma and Zambezi and are presently preparing another consignment for Kalabo in Western Province,” UNHCR spokesman, Dominik Bartsch said in a statement.

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