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Some US $4.4 million of humanitarian international aid is needed to help returning refugees and the internally displaced resettle, and the latter’s host families recover from a military revolt that ended in May, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in his latest report on the country. Quoting UNHCR, he said 1,137 of the estimated 1,572 people had so far have been repatriated from Cape Verde, The Gambia, Portugal and Senegal. “Many other refugees are returning of their own volition,” he said. An estimated 50,000 internally displaced persons have decided to settle “at least temporarily” with host families, he said, thereby contributing to the ongoing farming activity.
The fighting left thousands of refugees and internally displaced homeless. Fewer than half of the estimated 5,000 homes destroyed in and around Bissau had been rebuilt, he said, and the lack of construction material had delayed reconstruction.
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