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DATE=11/4/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=UNHCR / ANGOLA (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-255809
BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN
DATELINE=GENEVA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  The U-N Refugee Agency reports there has been 
a sharp increase in the number of people fleeing 
Angola into Zambia during the past four weeks.  Lisa 
Schlein in Geneva reports the agency says refugees are 
fleeing Angola's Moxico province to escape heavy 
fighting between government and UNITA rebel forces.
TEXT:  The U-N Refugee Agency says more than 15-
hundred refugees from Angola's Moxico province have 
crossed into Zambia during the past month.  It says 
this is a dramatic increase. 
U-N-H-C-R Spokesman, Kris Janowski, says during the 
past year, about 100 new refugees a month have arrived 
in Zambia.
            /// JANOWSKI ACT ///
      The refugees are saying that the battles in the 
      Moxico province between the Angolan army and the 
      UNITA rebels have intensified.  People are 
      telling us about being taken from their homes 
      and used as human shields by retreating UNITA 
      troops, fearful of government air strikes.  So, 
      it is a very, very grim situation. 
            /// END ACT ///
Mr. Janowski says people are extremely fearful and 
anxious.  He says they escaped from the conflict zones 
and made their way to the border under cover of 
darkness.  Aid workers in Zambia report many of the 
refugees had walked for days and were very weak on 
arrival.
The U-N Refugee Agency has sent trucks with emergency 
food supplies and tents to three entry points in 
Zambia.  So far, the Agency has transferred about one-
thousand of the new arrivals to existing refugee 
settlements.  
The agency says Zambian aid workers are also looking 
into the possibility of setting up a transit center in 
the northwestern province of Zambia.  That is where 
the majority of new refugees are crossing.  
The U-N-H-C-R also reports smaller groups of Angolans 
have recently arrived in the Democratic Republic of 
the Congo.   (SIGNED)
NEB/LS/GE/LTD/RAE
04-Nov-1999 08:29 AM EDT (04-Nov-1999 1329 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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