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South Africa: UNHCR Urges Refugees to Stay in South Africa, Despite Their Circumstances
Daily Maverick, 6 November 2019
Protesting refugees in Cape Town and Pretoria are still adamant that they want to leave SA for a country where they will feel 'safe'. The UNHCR insists that mass resettlement is… Read more »
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South Africa: Refugee Leaders Refuse Help From Civil Society Organisations
GroundUp, 7 November 2019
Chances of resettlement are dismal, but leaders of group staying at church in centre of Cape Town persist with demand Read more »
UN Agency Urges Refugees to Stay in South Africa
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has encouraged refugees and asylum seekers - who staged a sit-in protest outside the agency's offices in Cape Town for several weeks - to remain in the country despite their fears of xenophobic violence. This comes after the migrants were forcibly removed from the UNHCR offices in Cape Town.
InFocus
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Hundreds of foreign nationals sought refuge in a Cape Town church after police fired stun grenades to get them out of the arcade where they were holding a sit-in outside the UN ... Read more »
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Refugees and asylum seekers who seek relocation from South Africa due to fears of xenophobic violence maintain hope that the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) will assist ... Read more »
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Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers have protested outside the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Cape Town calling for relocation to countries ... Read more »
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"Government, at national [level], is allowing people to flood South Africa. Most people occupying the buildings are people coming from outside the country ... Yes, we were in exile ... Read more »
