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UNHOR:
1.
EXECUTIVE SOLIITTEE 1986 3RIEFING
i) airois refugees are mandatory. African refugees also come under the 1951
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Some of the South Convention.
ii) The Namibian refugees are predominantly covered by the 1969 AU Convention.
iii) Some Angolans may have been affected by poor rain- fall in recent years. There are 130,000 displaced persons within Angola according to government figures quoted in Kay 1986. But almost all are victims of internal security problems and the civil war. None is the ressonsibility of UNHCR. There are also some returned refugees from Lambie who are cared for in Luanda by the State Secretariat for social affairs (JELJ).
remain.
iv)
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No economic refugees in Angola.
20,000 Zairois arrived en masse in 1977. 13,000 The 69,000 Namibians have arrived over the last ten In fact UMCR estimate thet as much as 40% of these are under 10 years old and were probably born in Angola.
years.
South African refugees have been increasing and may be as many as 10,000. They too have arrived over the last ten years mainly from other states in the region, eg Mozambique.
Host government grants full refugee status.
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i) Dairois need are assessed by UNHCR, South Africans by ANC. Namibian needs are assessed by WA:O, using the help of outside experts if the subject is of a technical nature.
ii) Lairois in their various camps do not have any organised spokesmen. According to UNHCR (in confidence) about 3,000 would like to return to Zaire. UNHCR are trying to establish an Angola/Zaire/HCR tripartite committee to arrange this but it is proving difficult. Meanwhile individual applic- ations are taking a long time. But it seems clear that UNHCR are able to seek their views.
SAFC and the ANC speak for all Namibian and South African refugees respectively.
iii) UNHCR officers in Angola have been able to visit all the Zairois settlements (though not as often as they would like). They have visited the main Namibian settlements in Luanda, Kwanza Norte and Kwanza Sul (about 44,000 refugees). But they. have not been invited to those further south or to any of the ANC camps.
iv)
UNHCR liaises with the SERS.
v) SAFO and NC do their own selection for training programmes. In the case of SWAPO scholarships are available in UK (elsewhere in Europe), Congo, Cameroon and Ghana.
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