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US donates funds for refugee repatriation

    NAIROBI

    The United States government will provide the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and NGOs working with it with US $3.5 million to meet the “unexpected and urgent needs associated with the repatriation and reintegration of Eritrean refugees from Sudan”, said a statement by the US State Department on Monday. The money was part of US $27 million authorised by US President George W. Bush on 26 July to respond to “unexpected urgent humanitarian emergencies”, in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Eritrea and Afghanistan, said the statement.

    UNHCR had suspended the repatriation of more than 174,000 Eritrean refugees after rains cut some of the roads leading from camps in western Sudan, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski said in a press briefing on 20 July. The repatriation was expected to resume at the end of the rainy season in early September, Janowski said.

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