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undertaken became
66.
From early 1980, a wholesale repatriation both spontaneously and with the assistance of UNHCR possible and within a few months, practically all who had fled Zimbabwe were back home. UNHCR was appointed co-ordinator of a United Nations programme for humanitarian assistance to The an estimated million returnees and internally displaced. programme, the requirements of which- $ 110 million in cash and $ 30 million worth of food were the subject of a special appeal, was implemented by the Government of Zimbabwe and completed by mid-1981.
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