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Talks on refugee repatriation to be held with Uganda

    NAIROBI

    The administrative officer of the joint commission on repatriation and reintegration of Rwandan refugees has announced that Rwanda and Uganda will hold talks on refugee repatriation issues in November, the Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported on Saturday. The officer in charge of repatriation and reintegration of Rwandan refugees, Abdullah Baguma, said the meeting would be the first between the two countries. "We are optimistic for positive outcomes of the meeting," he said.

    He also said that Rwandan refugees living in Tanzania were yet to start visiting Rwanda as "a means to see for themselves that there is peace and stability prevailing in the country". After such visits have begun, a Rwandan delegation will then visit the refugees in their camps to sensitise them on repatriation.

    "It is after then that we will hold another meeting with Tanzania to formulate repatriation resolutions," he added.

    Between 100,000 to 130,000 Rwandan refugees are living in Tanzania, Togo, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Zambia, Uganda and Burundi, he said.

    RNA reported that Rwanda has repatriated at least three million refugees since 1994, when a three-month genocide claimed the lives of some 800,000 to one million Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.

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