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More Than 1,000 Rwandans Return From Uganda

March 30, 2004

Rwanda - More than 1,100 Rwandan refugees have now returned home from Uganda - many for the first time in over a decade - since a repatriation programme run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) started in January.

In the most recent convoy, some 228 refugees left a camp in Uganda's southwest this morning and travelled by truck to the Rwandan border. About half of the group, the first of three convoys scheduled for this week, were children.

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