Over 500,000 Displaced Angolans Return Home

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Over 500,000 Displaced Angolans Return Home

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At least 560,000 displaced people out of more than three million throughout Angola returned and were settled to their original areas over the last five months, Angolan news agency Angop reported on Tuesday.

Quoting a report of the office of humanitarian aid coordination,Angop said that during the period mentioned, the pace of the displaced returning movement sped up especially early in September,when it reached an average of 10,000 people a day.

According to report, the provinces of Bengo, Bie, Huambo and Malanje recorded the highest number of movements.

The humanitarian organization expects that the number of the returned resettled since the war came to end in April this year, may reach as many as 700,000 to 750,000 till the end of year, should current trends remain.

Only 10 percent of the returns is occurring under an organized plan. Most of the displaced are returning on their own, without any type of assistance either from local authorities or from humanitarian aid agencies, the report also says.

On April 4 of this year, the Angolan government and UNITA forces signed a ceasefire accord to end nearly three decades of civil war, which broke out in 1975 after the country's independence from Portugal. During the war some 4 million people have become internal refugees, losing their homes.

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