[RwandaLibre] Zambia appeals for assistance to integrate refugees into society

 

Zambia appeals for assistance to integrate refugees into society

Posted by: APA Posted date : May 2, 2014 at 1:18 pm UTC 20 views In: Politics

The Zambian government pleaded for donor assistance on Friday to help
the country roll out a programme to integrate refugees from
neighbouring countries into society.Home Affairs minister Ngosa
Simbyakula made the plea during a consultative meeting with donor
agencies on how the refugee integration process would be rolled out
and coordinated.

Zambia currently plays host to around 53,000 refugees, mainly from the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Rwanda and Burundi.

However, with peace returning to these countries after years of
internal conflicts, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees
(UNHCR) has begun a process of decommissioning several refugee camps
in the country that housed hundreds of thousands or refugees in the
past.

Thousands of the refugees have, however, refused to be repatriated to
their home countries for a number of reasons, including that they no
longer have relatives there and they have lost touch with the cultures
in the home countries.

This has prompted the Zambian government to embark on a process of
granting citizenship to such refugees.

Simbyakula, however, observed that the process of integrating African
refugees into Zambian society was complex and expensive and would only
be successful with donor assistance.

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