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IOM, UNHCR to repatriate 20,000 refugees

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    The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) plan to begin the voluntary repatriation of 20,000 Sierra Leonean refugees on Monday.
    The IOM said in an appeal for emergency aid that the repatriation would be by air and sea. The IOM said it would assume “full responsibility” for the sea operation as of 7 January while the airlift will be considered later.
    A UNHCR spokeswoman told IRIN on Friday that the agency had agreed to work with the IOM “to facilitate repatriation” of Sierra Leonean refugees who wish to return home. Refugees seeking passage home have been streaming daily into a crowded UNHCR holding facility in the Guinean capital of Conakry.
    [FOR full story see item “GUINEA: IOM, UNHCR to evacuate 20,000 refugees]

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