Gov�t to bear brunt of refugees� welfare
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Namibians are some of the refugees housed at Dukwi Refugee Camp
He was presenting his Ministry’s proposals for the National Development Plan 11. “The effect of this scaling down will result in a transfer of costs relating to welfare, health and education of refugees to the Botswana government,” he said. To deliver these services to over 2,000 refugees in the country, government will on average spend P20 million per annum.
Of the 2,113 asylum seekers at Dukwi Refugee Camp, majority are Namibians at 919, followed by 688 Zimbabweans, 312 Somalia nationals, 184 from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda and10 from Eritrea.
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