UNHCR 'cannot' relocate foreign nationals demanding to leave SA — report

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Evacuation of foreign nationals demanding to leave SA is “not an option on the table”, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in SA.

on Sunday.

Police arrested scores of refugees and asylum seekers last week who were involved in a sit-in protest outside the UNHCR offices in Cape Town. They were demanding the UN agency move them to a different country, for fear of xenophobic violence in SA. Hundreds of refugees were engaged in a similar protest outside the UNHCR office in Brooklyn, Pretoria.

 

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How did they get here kanti☻☻🙄

Yes we are indeed champions for all the wrong reasons.....which will still be there long after we have forgotten about the RWC2019Champions, rape, murder, women and child abuse, xenophobia

Problem with some of our fellow African, they enter here in SA illegally and want to be move legally.

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