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Over780 Sudanese refugees return home from exile |
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
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Over 780 Sudanese refugees have returned home this week from exile.
According to figures from of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)-Juba office, the refugees returned within the voluntary repatriation program.
A statement from the United Nations Refugee Agency in Juba said over 200 families came from Uganda, while 300 people returned from Liberia in West Africa.
The returnees have settled in several places in Central Equatoria, and Eastern Equatoria states.
The UNHCR expects to return more refugees from Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Libya, Syria, Liberia, and Ghana from January to March this year.
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