[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)
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