Menongue, 11/21 - A total of 2,369
Angolans previously living in the Republics of Namibia, Zambia and Botswana
have returned to the southeastern Kuando-Kubango province, from 07 April
to 18 October 2006.
According to the head of department
of assistance and social welfare of the Ministry of Social Welfare, in
Kuando Kubango, Sungo Matumona Pedro, the transportation of the refugees
was made by road and air by his department in partnership with the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
According to the source, for the conclusion of the repatriation process around 703 people still need to be transported from Namibia, and 4,133 from Zambia, among children and adults.
The 2,369 refugees have already been sent to their zones of origin, some in the province's interior, with the cooperation of the UNHCR and the Italian NGO SOS, which carried out the transportation project.
From January now, around 169 people spontaneously returned to Angola from Namibia, from the Democratic Republic of Congo (11,000) and 22 from Zambia.