admin Yolanda Simango Post Correspondent —
GOVERNMENT together with its development partners has relocated 691 Mozambican refugees to Tongogara Refugees Camp, bringing the total number of refugees at the camp to 8 500.
Acting Manicaland Provincial Administrator, Mr Edgars Seenza, said Mozambican refugees were temporarily housed at Mabee in Chipinge South constituency which is a buffer zone and it was not safe for them as they were exposed to any form of harm.
He added that through Government’s commitment to the welfare of refugees, it decided to relocate them to Tongogara Refugee Camp where they would able to get education from Tongogara Horticulture College and access to health, food ,water and sanitations.
He also said the refugees we relocated to Tongogara Refugee Camp where they could be taken care of by trained staff.
The refugees fled their homes in Mozambique following Renamo insurgency.
Clashes between Renamo and government forces intensified throughout 2015 and spilled into 2016
Renamo had vowed that it could not agree with any count that was not in its favour and it instead declared that it had won 139 seats in the seven northern and central provinces to just 34 for the ruling Frelimo Party and 14 for the Mozambique Democratic Movement.
More than 6 000 refugees are also in Malawi
Tongogara Refugee Camp is home to 8 500 people, with refugees from DRC, Burundi, Mozambique and Rwanda having the highest number of people with few from Egypt, Mali, Ethiopia and others.
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