UGANDA-SUDAN: More refugees to be repatriated

from IRIN

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is to step up the repatriation of Southern Sudanese refugees from Uganda, despite logistical constraints that have slowed progress.

"We expect that up to 50,000 refugees will be repatriated this year," the high commissioner, Antonio Guterres, told reporters in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on 6 March. "Logistics have not been enough ... [but] people want to return home."

Guterres, who visited northern Uganda where most of the thousands of Sudanese refugees live, said UNHCR would double the number of returnees going back each week.

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