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assistance for this purpose. For any others, however, supplementary assistance was still required to meet immediate needs in respect of medical care, clothing and accommodation.
109. An amount of $350,300 was expended under UNHCR's 1977 General Assistance Programme in Ethiopia, including nearly $292,000 for local settlement assistance and $53,800 for supplementary aid. Expenditure of $76,000 through Special Programmes included $12,500 in grants from the Refugee Education Account.
6. Kenya
110. By the end of 1977 the total refugee population was estimated at 6,000 following sizable new influxes of refugees from Uganda, who now total 4,000, the remainder being small groups of refugees from various countries living mainly in urban areas.
111. To meet the immediate needs of the increasing numbers of Ugandan refugees, whose presence poses serious problems for the Government of Kenya, funds were allocated from the High Commissioner's Emergency Fund to provide initial grants and later supplementary aid in the form of monthly allowances. Assistance measures provided for under the 1977 General Programme included the construction of a reception centre for processing new arrivals and the establishment of a rural settlement to enable the refugees to become self-supporting.
112. Other groups of refugees received initial grants, supplementary aid, counselling, education and resettlement assistance, as well as grants for local settlement to assist them in becoming self-supporting. South Africans in transit in Kenya also benefited from assistance financed by the United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa.
113. UNHCR assistance projects continued to be implemented mainly by the Joint Refugee Services of Kenya, which also contributed funds from its own resources.
114. In addition to an allocation of some $181,000 from the High Commissioner's Emergency Fund, UNHCR expended a total of nearly $329,000 under its 1977 General Programme, of which $211,000 were for local settlement assistance including primary education and initial measures for the construction of a reception centre. In addition, over $215,000 were expended under the Special Programmes.
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Hozambique
115. UNHCR continued implementation of the two programmes in Mozambique in 1977; the General Programme for Zimbabwean and other refugees, and the Special Programme for the repatriation and resettlement of returning refugees and displaced persons which was started in 1975. The Government is the implementing agent for all UNHCR projects in Mozambique.
116. The influx of Zimbabwean refugees into Mozambique continued at an accelerated rate in 1977, the total population of the three settlements established by the Government at Doroi (Manica province), Tronga (Sofala province) and Mavudzi (Tete province) rising from 27,000 at the end of 1976 to some 42,000 by 31 December 1977. The latter figure includes 7,000 refugees transferred from
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