ZAMBIA HOSTS 76,000 REFUGEES

Foreign Affairs Minister Joe Malanji says Zambia has maintained an open-door asylum policy that allows refuges to live among citizens.
Mr. Malanji says Zambia is currently hosting over 76,000 refugees.
He notes that Zambia’s commitment and policy to sheltering refugees and internally-displaced-persons has remained intact for over fifty years as the country has continued to receive asylum seekers from neighboring countries and from far beyond.
Mr. Malanji was speaking when he made an intervention during a closed-door session of the 34th Extraordinary Executive Council, themed ” Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to forced Displacement in Africa”.
This is according to a statement issued to ZNBC News by First Secretary -Press and Tourism at the Zambian Mission in Ethiopia, Inutu Mwanza.
Meanwhile, former Anti-Corruption Commission -ACC Director Agness Ngandu has been unanimously elected to sit on the African Union Advisory Board on Corruption -AUABC.
Mrs. Ng’andu received 46 votes from the African Union Executive Council out of the 53-member states.
The African Union Advisory Board on Corruption -AUABC promotes and encourages adoption and application of anti-corruption measures on the continent.
The Board also collects and documents information on the nature and scope of corruption and related offences in Africa and develops methodologies for analyzing the nature and extent of corruption.

Post Views:
113

News Source: ZNBC