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  • Title: [SW News](BBC Monitoring) SOMALI REFUGEES CONTINUE RETURNING HOME VOLUNTARILY
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SOMALI REFUGEES CONTINUE RETURNING HOME VOLUNTARILY
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom ; 20-Apr-2000 12:00:00 am 

Text of report in English by pro-Ethiopian government Walta Information Centre web site on 20th April

Ten thousand Somali refuges living in three shelters in eastern Ethiopia were voluntarily repatriated to their homeland since last March the Eastern Ethiopia Refugees and Returnees Affairs Coordination Office announced here yesterday. The office said the refugees, who had been residing in Rubaso, Daroro and Kamaboker shelters were repatriated to their native land.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is providing the refugees with a nine-month ration and household utensils each, branch office head, Tsegaye Mihretu said. The refugees were also given transport allowances to reach their places of origin following their arrival in Somalia, he said.

According to the office head, 90,000 of the 163,000 Somali refugees living in eastern Ethiopia have so far been voluntarily repatriated to their homeland.

Source: Walta Information Centre web site, Addis Ababa, in English 20 Apr 00


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