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meet the Government's deadline of 7 November 1972, it was decided to organize, for all those who had not yet left, emergency evacuation operation under the responsibility of UNDP. ICRC agreed to issue one-way travel documents to those requiring them, and ICM arranged transportation out of Uganda. The expellees were airlifted to UNHCR-sponsored transit camps in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Malta
Belgium, Italy, Malta and Spain, where their resettlement processing could be continued until, two years later, all of them had left for new countries. Twenty-five receiving countries contributed to this satisfactory conclusion to the emergency.
23. In Uganda, the Asians' property was expropriated by government officials and the armed forces (only the equivalent of $ 100 per family had been allowed out of the country). Subsequently, the British and Indian Governments registered compensation claims on behalf of their nationals, and UNHCR undertook to negotiate claims on behalf of Asians of undeter- mined nationality. For people in this category, the Govern- ment of Uganda in 1977 agreed upon a global amount of $ 4.88 million, to be paid in instalments over ten years.
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After the overthrow of Amin's régime and the assumption of power by President Obote, the possibility for some Ugandan Asians to return to their country of former residence opened up in view of the change in circumstances which had led to their departure.
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After five consecutive years of sub-normal rainfall across the vast sub-Saharan region encompassing parts of Chad, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Senegal and Upper Volta which came to be known universally as the Sahel, the spectre of imminent famine was seen in late 1972/early 1973 when hundreds of thousands of nomads
forced by drought out of their normal habitat, while crop failure seriously affected an estimated nine million people. The effect of the drought on the livestock population, the backbone of the economy of some of the affected countries, was dramatic; herds migrated on an unprecedented scale in search of water
the and fodder, sustaining heavy losses, survivors taking refuge in host countries, accompanied by their nomadic owners, for whom they were both the source of a subs- tantial part of the daily diet and the only basis for economic survival. By March 1973, when concerned ministers of five of the stricken countries met in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta, it had
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