UNHCR launches 2nd visit-exchange between families in Morocco and in southern Algeria

Originally published March 13, 2004

A second group of Moroccan families left this Friday Laayoune to the Polisario-run camps in southern Algeria, in the second visit-exchange program organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

The second group to take part in this operation comprises 24 persons, after the first operation of the kind allowed 21 persons from Laayoune to stay with their relatives in the camps for five days, between March 5 and 10, while another group of 19 persons from the camps had visited with their families in Laayoune.

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