UN LAUNCHES FIRST FLIGHT IN EXPANDED FAMILY VISITS FOR WESTERN SAHARA REFUGEES
New York, Apr 12 2012 4:10PM The United Nations refugee agency on Wednesday launched the first flight in an expanded programme of visits for long-separated Sahrawi families in the Tindouf camps of Algeria and in the territory of Western Sahara. According to a news release issued by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a Boeing 737 aircraft transported 150 visiting relatives from Western Sahara to the camps in Algeria, and returned carrying 137 Sahrawi refugees from the Tindouf…
