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UNHCR chief visits Kigali

    NAIROBI

    UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, in Kigali on a two-day visit, said on Tuesday that the international community should continue assisting Rwanda in its post-emergency rehabilitation phase, news agencies said. “We should come more in the programming of the community development and reconciliation so as not to destroy the progress that has been achieved,” AFP quoted Ogata as saying. “The emergency phase is over. But for a longer term stabilisation, the money gets very tight,” she said.

    Meanwhile, Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu on Wednesday appealed for more help to reintegrate returnees. “I call on the community of donors to continue to support the UNHCR in its reintegration efforts,” AFP quoted Bizimungu as saying. “Repatriating people is not enough, they have to be set up in minimal conditions,” he said.

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