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218: 63:. The camp grew quickly in its early years, reaching a peak of 20,000 inhabitants in 1998. Since then the refugee population of Osire decreased steadily, approaching 6,500 in 2010, and 3,000 in 2014. Due to the cessation of conflicts in the countries where inhabitants originate from, the camp is scheduled to close. In 2008 the majority (75%) of refugees still resident here came from Angola, and a sizeable portion from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 74:
rule over Namibian territory. Throughout its existence as refugee camp maltreatment of inhabitants, retaliation, harassment and riots have been reported. In 2009 a group of 41 people fled the camp with the help of a local Human Rights organisation after allegedly having received death threats. This
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regards the camp as one of the best managed in the world, due to its provisioning of formal school education, both primary and secondary. The settlement further has a police station and a clinic.
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between Namibia and Botswana for three months until being arrested by Botswana authorities and deported to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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refugee camp
Namibia
Windhoek
C30
Gobabis
Otjiwarongo
Angola
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rwanda
Somalia
UNHCR
South African
Mamuno
Botswana
No Man's Land
"Spotlight Falls on Osire Refugees"
New Era
"Alone in a crowd ... the story of Osire Refugee Camp inhabitants"
The Namibian


USCRI
Medilinkz
Archived
Wayback Machine
Namibia National Society for Human Rights
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Botswana to deport runaway refugees"

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