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US Helps UNHCR Resettle War Victims from Chad

Date: 
Jun 26, 2009
News Source: 
Voice of America News

The United States has begun accepting the first group of 1,800 refugees it plans to resettle annually from communities and overburdened refugee camps in Chad.
  
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which is coordinating the selection process and the transfer, says that most of the victims Chad has been housing are blameless civilians, who have been caught up and displaced by heavy fighting in Sudan’s Darfur, the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the Central African Republic (CAR).

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