Heavily armed police presence ends Caprivians' hunger strike

Dukwi Refugees
Dukwi Refugees

FRANCISTOWN: Presence of heavily armed police officers at Dukwi Refugee Camp from Tuesday evening through Wednesday ended the hunger strike that the Caprivian refugees had embarked on in front of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices.

On the eve of the World Refugee Day commemoration on Wednesday, Dukwi Refugee Camp – some 130km northwest of Francistown – resembled a crisis-laden zone with a heavy presence of armed members of riot police, otherwise called Special Support Group (SSG).

Caprivians from Namibia’s Caprivi Strip had planned an indefinite hunger and sit-in strike in front of UNHCR offices in Dukwi in a bid to seek the United Nations (UN) refugee agency’s intervention ahead of the impeding forced repatriation to Namibia.

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