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[Published: Friday October 22 2010]

 Mauritanian refugees return home from Senegal

 Dakar, 22 Oct-(ANA)-The first group of Mauritanian refugees have returned to their home country from Senegal, as the United Nations refugee agency’s repatriation scheme resumes following a 10-month break.
 More than 120 refugees were have been transported  to the southern Mauritanian 
town of Rosso, across the Senegal River that marks the border between the two 
West African countries.
 
Refugees from Mauritania have lived in Senegal for more than two decades. They 
are among the tens of thousands who fled when a border dispute between 
Mauritania and Senegal descended into clashes in April 1989. The voluntary 
return to Mauritania only became possible after the Mauritanian Government 
called in 2007 on its citizens to return home from exile. (ANA)
FA/ANA/22 October 2010--------

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