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Togolese refugees in Ghana and Benin now number nearly 32,000 – UN

Togolese refugees in Ghana and Benin now number nearly 32,000 – UN

Togolese refugees in Ghana
Mobile and registration teams monitoring the borders between Togo and its neighbours have found pockets of Togolese refugees who had slipped across the frontier with Ghana and have been living with host families, bringing the total number of refugees in Ghana and Benin to nearly 32,000, the United Nations refugee agency said today.

Mobile and registration teams monitoring the borders between Togo and its neighbours have found pockets of Togolese refugees who had slipped across the frontier with Ghana and have been living with host families, bringing the total number of refugees in Ghana and Benin to nearly 32,000, the United Nations refugee agency said today.

A group of 237 unregistered refugees was found yesterday in Lipke-Todorme in the Hohoe district of the Volta Region in Ghana by the joint mobile team from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), non-governmental organizations (NGO) and government staff members, the agency said.

The number of registered refugees in Ghana now totalled 14,964, and the host families were being assisted as their supplies ran low, UNHCR said.

Benin was housing 17,000 refugees, with the rate continuing to average more than 100 a day. In the last two days, 847 refugees had arrived in the Beninese capital, Cotonou, it added.