2011-06-21
Mauritanian rights activists on Monday (June 20th) called for the repatriation of the last remaining refugees from Senegal and Mali, PANA reported. In a statement issued in Nouakchott to mark African Refugee Day, the Forum of Human Rights Organizations (FONADH) said that some 5,000 Mauritanian refugees were still in Senegal, with another 9,000 in Mali.
Repatriation operations began in 2008, following the three-party agreement between Mauritania, Senegal and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Some 20,000 Mauritanian refugees returned from Senegal before the program ended in 2010. The black Mauritanian refugees were expelled to Senegal during the 1989-1991 racial purges.
Source: Magharebia.
Link: http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/newsbriefs/general/2011/06/21/newsbrief-05.
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