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Refugee Issues
A/S Schwartz (Aug. 19): "Moving to Africa, while millions of refugees and displaced remain in crises in many parts of the continent, we have played an important role in promoting critical processes of reconciliation and return home for half a million Burundians over the past several years, for nearly 200,000 Burundians not returning home, but rather being locally integrated into Tanzania, to the return of 300,000 refugees to Sudan. But this remains a – the crisis – refugee crises in Africa remain a critically important issue for us." Full Text
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