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DATE=12/10/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=U-N-H-C-R / ANGOLA (L ONLY)
NUMBER=2-257038
BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN
DATELINE=GENEVA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  The U-N refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says more 
than two-thousand refugees have fled Angola into 
Zambia in the past few days.  Lisa Schlein in Geneva 
reports the refugees are fleeing fighting between 
Angolan government and UNITA rebel forces.
TEXT:  U-N refugee agency spokesman Ron Redmond says 
many of the new refugees have gone to Kalabo, on the 
western side of the Zambezi plains.  He says aid 
workers there registered about one-thousand-450 
Angolans.  Among them, he says are about 200 military 
personnel from the Angolan army.  He says they are 
being disarmed by Zambian soldiers.
            ///  REDMOND ACT ONE  ///
      There are indications that the confrontation has 
      intensified along the entire border between 
      Zambia and Angola, of course, on the Angolan 
      side, raising the possibility of more refugees 
      to Zambia in coming days.
            ///  END ACT  ///
Mr. Redmond says the United Nations is sending food 
and non-food supplies to the area to meet the 
increased need of the growing refugee population.  In 
addition, he says more staff is being deployed to 
Meheba, in Zambia's Western province, to coordinate 
the relief effort. 
He says the refugee agency's biggest concern is trying 
to figure out how to transport the refugees quickly 
from transit locations along the border to other camps 
that are already in existence.
            /// REDMOND ACT TWO ///
      Logistical difficulties are being compounded 
      because the Zambezi plains are beginning to 
      flood because of the rainy season.  So, it makes 
      some of these camps that are inland, 
      inaccessible  by roads.  So, now we're looking 
      at the possibility of using boats. 
            ///  END ACT  ///
Zambia has hosted Angolan refugees for decades.  
Before this latest influx, more than 32-thousand 
refugees from Angola were being accommodated in 
Zambia.  (Signed)
NEB/LS/kl
10-Dec-1999 13:05 PM EDT (10-Dec-1999 1805 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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