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Rwandan children reunited with their families

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    Nine Rwandan children separated from their families for the past two years were Thursday reunited with family members in Rwanda, a UNHCR official told IRIN on Friday. The official said the children, who had arrived in Brazzaville from the DRC in 1997, were placed in the country’s refugee camps. “They later on moved to the unaccompanied minor’s camps where we have been trying to trace their families with the help of the International Rescue Committee and ICRC,” the official said. A “small number” of Rwandan unaccompanied children remain in the camps, he added.

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