UN repatriates Zim refugees

UN building in Gaborone
UN building in Gaborone

FRANCISTOWN: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has resumed a voluntary repatriation programme for hundreds of Zimbabwean refugees who fled to Botswana from political persecution there in the last decade.

A sizeable number of Zimbabweans crossed the border into Botswana while running away from violence allegedly perpetrated on mostly Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters in the southern parts of Zimbabwe.

This was at the height of political instability in 2008.

Editor's Comment
Inspect the voters' roll!

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