UN begins last phase of Tajik refugee return

(1:23am AEST)
The United Nations refugee agency -- the UNHCR -- has announced it's to start repatriating the last major group of Tajik refugees from Afghanistan tomorrow, Friday.
The agency said the first group of 320 refugees would be leave their camp near the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and cross the border into Uzbekistan, travelling on to Tajikistan by train.
The Sakhi camp is believed to hold up to seven thousand people.
More than 50-thousand Tajiks fled to northern Afghanistan during the civil war in the former Soviet republic four years ago.
The repatriation of the bulk of the refugees was completed last week from the Kunduz region.