Africa: Wider cooperation in resettling refugees

For the first time in years multiple opportunities exist throughout Africa for the potential repatriation of up to 2 million refugees, and millions more internally displaced people, a senior UN official said this week. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, was upbeat at a meeting in Geneva on Monday to discuss the prospects for repatriation in several countries, including Angola, Sierra Leone, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).