[NYTr] UN Shuts Down Refugee Camp in Malawi

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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UN Shuts Down Refugee Camp in Malawi

United Nations, Oct 29 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations announced the
official closure of the Luwani refugee camp and the transfer of 660
people to the only such facility still open in Malawi, at the request
of the government of Lilongwe.

According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the refugee
camp in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, will raise authorities'
security concerns.

More than 600 people, their belongings and animals were transferred on
17 trucks to Dzaleka, where they will live in tents until construction
of shelters, with materials supplied by the UNHCR, is completed.

Including the new arrivals, 3,000 refugees will live in the camp,
located in the northern part of the capital.

The UNHCR expressed concern because unlike the Luwani camp, the Dzaleka
camp has no conditions for the refugees to be self-sufficient by
working the fields.

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