{"id":870,"date":"2011-09-23T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/refugees-at-gihembe-camp-angry-at-registration\/"},"modified":"2011-09-23T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:09:15","slug":"refugees-at-gihembe-camp-angry-at-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/refugees-at-gihembe-camp-angry-at-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees At Gihembe Camp Angry At Registration Excercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Immigrants at Gihembe refugee camp have claimed they are delayed and kept for long time at the verification hall where the ongoing re-registration exercise is taking place.}}<\/p>\n

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They have claimed that they are left to wait with their children and wives and no one is left back home to prepare meals for them and some also stay in the hall for a week or more.<\/p>\n

Jean Nsengiyera the camp president confirmed the allegations saying that the whole family is asked to be in the hall and children go hungry since no one remains back to prepare their meals.<\/p>\n

However, Nsengiyera did not confirm his colleagues\u2019 allegations that some refugees spend between one day and a week in the verification hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have children that go there and spend the whole day with their mothers who cannot cook for them while attending the re-registration exercise, we have had several meetings with them showing our grievances and we are wait to see a change,\u201d Nsengiyera told {igihe.com} in the camp.<\/p>\n

Anouck Bron\u00e9e External Relations Officer at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says parents at Gihembe camp decided to make their own choice to bring their children at the verification hall where the re-registration is commencing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed sometimes the process takes longer. Refugees are summoned in the morning and the exercise takes several hours, that one I will not deny. <\/p>\n

However, we have a plan that they should not bring their children, that they should leave their children at school and their children will be registered separately,\u201d Bronee told igihe.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a parents\u2019 choice to bring their children. We have advised them not to but they prefer to bring their children\u2026I don\u2019t know why they want to bring their children with them. You should know that UNHCR has advised that the children remain at school,\u201d Bronee explained.<\/p>\n

Perturbed by the allegations, Bronee also emphasised, \u201cNo refugee stays overnight in the verification hall, I want to confirm that and to make that very clear, it is a misrepresentation on behalf the refugees\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to Bronee the objective of the re-registration exercise is for UNHCR and its partners to obtain accurate information on refugees other than fears in the camp that the refugees were going to be relocated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe work now on the assumption that we have about 56000 refugees in Rwanda but it may be that we have much less than that so every three-four years UNHCR and its partners embark on this exercise to update our data. To know how we can help them better, there is no relocation involved whatsoever,\u201d Bronee cleared the air.<\/p>\n

Bronee said that the verification exercise has so far admitted at least 12289 refugees (meaning they have not yet completed all stages of the re-registration exercise), 7419 refugees have completed all stages of the re-registration exercise.<\/p>\n

The exercise involves obtaining numbers of refugees, biometric, information on families, and photographs compiling information related to every individual.<\/p>\n

The exercise will also be extended to other refugee camps of Kiziba and Nyabiheke camps in Karongi and Northern Province respectively.<\/p>\n

It is expected that the whole exercise will be completed by the end of this year while Gihembe camp alone is expected to be completed by the end of this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know its work in progress, we may be delayed or we may increase our pace, it is not a confirmed dates, it is a projection,\u201d Bronee said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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