Zimbabwe is currently hosting a total of 10 860 registered refugees and asylum seekers and the country's emergency response to the Mozambican crisis has put a strain on already stretched resources, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. The conflict in Mozambique has led to the influx of more than 6 000 asylum seekers in the eastern border area of Zimbabwe.
VP Mnangagwa said this in a speech read on his behalf by the Minister of State in his office, Mr Clifford Sibanda, at the launch of an inter-agency refugee appeal of $10, 953, 821 for Mozambican asylum seekers by Government, the United Nations Refugees Agency and non governmental organisations in Harare yesterday.
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