UNHCR has begun to repatriate some 2,000 Congolese refugees from the capital Bangui to the DRC, a UNHCR official told IRIN on Thursday. “We sent 152 people to Kinshasa on the first flight on Tuesday, and two flights tomorrow [Friday] will bring a minimum of 300 to Kinshasa,” he said. The refugees had been sheltering at the port of Bangui since they fled conflict between government forces and rebels in the DRC’s Equateur province in July. “Some of them want to go to Mbandaka [in Equateur], but we will finish with the Kinshasa ones first,” the official said. There are currently another 8,000 Congolese refugees elsewhere in the CAR.
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