Women and Children in Crisis Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/women-and-children-in-crisis/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 16 Oct 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Women and Children in Crisis Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/women-and-children-in-crisis/ 32 32 Refugees escaping xenophobic attacks in South Africa say they will go where the United Nations sends them https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/refugees-escaping-xenophobic-attacks-in-south-africa-say-they-will-go-where-the-united-nations-sends-them/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/refugees-escaping-xenophobic-attacks-in-south-africa-say-they-will-go-where-the-united-nations-sends-them/ Congolese citizens sitting outside the Pretoria office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees say they have no say about where they are moved to escape xenophobic attacks in South Africa. They will go to any country the United Nations decides is safe for them. Compatriots in Cape Town of the demonstrating Congolese refugees […]

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]]> Congolese citizens sitting outside the Pretoria office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees say they have no say about where they are moved to escape xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

They will go to any country the United Nations decides is safe for them.

Compatriots in Cape Town of the demonstrating Congolese refugees has asked to be sent to a Australia, New Zealand or Canada.

In Pretoria, spokesman for the organization Women and Children in Crisis Alex Nkoy says they’re in no position to make any requests.

Asked if they would go to Rwanda, which is currently taking in African would-be migrants held in Libyan detention centers, Nkoy says they will go where the UNHCR decides to send them. 

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