CONFIDENTIAL
ANNEX III
REFUGEES IN ANGOLA
1.
The Angolan authorities claim there are some 250,000 refugees in the country. UNHCR private figures are nearer 220,000 but they accept publicly the Angolan estimate. Some 200,000 of this total are Žairois who, since Shaba, have been moved to camps away from the border in South Luanda and Mexico. (The ex-Katangese gendarmes, now disarmed, are encamped along the line of the Benguela Railway from Luao to Lumege). The Zairois refugees were reluctant to move from their previous camps since they had planted their crops for the season.
2. Following the South African raid on Cassinga in May, Namibian refugees have been concentrated in two camps near Lubango, at Hoque and near Caçula. The UNHCR tend to allow SWAPO's internal organisation to receive the channel supplies to these camps.
3. The United Kingdom has supplied humanitarian aid to refugees in Angola through the UNHCR. There has been some reluctance on the part of the previous UNHCR representative in Luanda to press the Angolan authorities to give the UK, and other Western aid doners the credit due to them for the aid given. Angolan gratitude, when expressed, is given exclusively to the Eastern Bloc and to the Scandinavians.
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