5/20/11 9:58 AM

Kuito - At least 60.000 Angolans who showed interest to return home will be repatriated, under an operation that will go until December this year.

This was said to Angopon Thursday in Kuito District in the central Bié province by the Welfare and Social Reintegration Minister, João Baptista Kussumua.

According to him, 43.85 people are coming from DR Congo, 8.925 are in Zambia, 5000 are located in Namibia and 2.652 are based in the Republic of Congo, while other 100 refugees are coming from the Republic of Botswana.

The minister said that the controls 137.918 refugees residing in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, DR Congo and Congo Brazzaville.

João Baptista Kussumua said that Bié province will receive 14.276 people.