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About 141,180 Angolan refugees have returned to their home-land, coming from the neighbouring Republics of Zambia, Namibia and DR Congo, since the beginning, last year june 20th, of the repatriation processes.
According to a press note released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which ANGOP had access, today, from this number around 46,000 have returned under the organised voluntary repatriation programme and 38,300 through spontaneous way, and had been assisted by this UN's agency and its operational and implementation partners.
The note further states that on the 2 and 3 of this month, over 377 and 130 Angolan returnees have reached the country, coming from DR Congo's Nkondo and Kilueca districts, concentrated in Mbanza Congo district, north-western province of Zaire, through Luvo entry point.
From Zambia, there have arrived to the municipality of Cazombo, east Moxico province, about 1,728 refugees since last May, while in Namibia's Osire camp, around 240 refugees had been repatriated to their homes in southern Cuando-Kubango province, and 625 others returned to the province of Cunene and its outskirts.
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That's alot of people on the move - ever been to Giant stadium? Thats' 90,000 - imagine 140,000!
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