I,!! •·'''''1''-~".r .~ . .,~?~......t,.,I ,.OFFICE OFT'HEUNITE,D NATIONS HIGHCOMMISSIONER FORREFUGEES r._~"T~.~AnV"1'I'. \'I' sE.?2'(\990 UNI~uv.-........I.Jt'J UNHCRactivities financed by voluntary funds: Reportfor1989-90 andproposed programmes andbudgetfor1991 PartleAfrica (Submitted bytheHighCommissioner) U.mllI·..TlO....UNBr:SACTIVITIES FINANCED BYVOLUN'1'ARY FUNDSI REPORT FOR1989-90 ANDPROPOSED PROGRAMMES AND BUDGET FOR1991I ENGLISH Original IENGLISHA/AC.96/751(Part I) 17August 1990Distr. GENERAL PartI.Africa (submitted bytheHIghCommissioner)Forty-first sessionZXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFTHE HIGHCOMMISSIONER'S PROGRAMME GE.90-02289•GENERAL ASSEMBLYUNITED NATIONSTABLEorCONTENTS 1.Africa Regional Overview ofDevelopments Angola Botswana Burundi Cameroon Central African Republic Coted'Ivoire Djibouti Ethiopia Guine:'\ Kenya Lesotho Malawi Mozambique Rwanda Senegal Somalia Sudan Swaziland Uganda UnitedRepublic ofTanzania Zaire Zambia ZimbabweA/AC.96/751(Part I) pageiii Paragraphs 1.0.1 1.0.14 1.1.1 1.1.13 1.2.1 1.2.11 1.3.1 1.3.11 1.4.1 1.4.11 1.5.1 1.5.9 1.6.1 1.6.11 1.8.1 1.8.32 1.10.1 -1.10.13 1.11.1 1.11.9 1.12.1 -1.12.15 1.13.1 -1.13.11 1.14.1 -1.14.10 1.15.1 -1.15.12 1.16.1 -1.16.23 1.17.1 -1.17.24 1.18.1 -1.18.13 1.19.1 -1.19.14 1.20.1 -1.20.14 1.21.1 -1.21.14 1.22.1 -1.22.14 1.23.1 -1.23.91A/AC.96/751(Part I) pageiv TableofContents (continued) Western Africa Othercountries inAfricaParagraphs 1.24.1 -1.24.13 1.25.1 -1.25.16,, Annex:I Annex:11Support Costsfor1991initial budget Staffiug requirements inAfrica Annex:III-Project Personnel Expenditure for1991initial bUdget Annex:IV-Project Personnel -Staffing Requirements ~: Theboundaries shownonallmapsinthisdocument donotimply official endorsement oracceptance bytheUnitedNations.,, A/AC.96/751(Part I) page1 1.0REGIONAL OVERVIEW orDIWBLOPMBRTS 1.0.1 Theoverall numberofref~gees inAfricaincreased againduringthe periodunderreview. Theinfluxes intoMalawi fromMozambique andintothe HornofAfricacontinued, thelatte~atareduced rate.EventsinLiberia beginning attIleendof1989 necessit~ted majornewemergency operations ina partofAfricathathadbeenrelatively freeoflarge-scale refugee movements. 1.0.2 Thesolution totheproblems of~efugees inAfricarequires the establismnent ofconditions thatwouldallowthemtoreturnhomevoluntarily andremovetheneedforotherstoflee.Itwasthusencouraging tosee various efforts towards thepeaceful resolution ofsomeoftheconflicts that havecontributed to,orbeenthemaincauseoftheflightefoverhalfthe continent's refugees. Oneofthelongest-standing andmostintractable refugee problems wassolvedin19$9withthesuccessful voluntary repatriation ofover43,000 Namibians. Closeco-operation between the Governments ofEthiopia andSomalia andUNHCRresulted inanappealbyUNHCR totheinternational community forthefinancing ofaprogramme tosolvethe problem ofEthiopian refugees iuSomalia. 1.0.3 Developments thatshouldhave,onbalance, beenpositive were, however, oftenover-shadowed bythefinancial crisisbeingfacedbythe Otfice. Theeffects ofthecrisis, explained indetailelsewhere inthis report, seriously affected thequality oflifeofrefugees inAfrica and riskedprejudicing theinternational community'~ ability toseizethe opportunities forsolutions astheypresented themselves. Enforced reductions infunding brought expenditure belowthelevelnecessary tomeet agreedneeds. Because thegreatmajority oftherefugees inAfricahave found a~ylumincountries facingmajoreconomic problems, andofteninthe moreremoteandpoorerareasofthesecountries, theimpactofsuccessive