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Adopted by the OAU Seventeenth Extraordinary Session of the Commission of Fifteen on Refugees, meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, 22 - 24 September 1990. OAU Doc BRlCOMl XVj55.90. Available at wwwl.umn.edu/humanrtslAfrica INTRODUCTION 1. The problem of refugees in Africa has reached unmanageable proportions. Of the world's total refugee population of 15 million, Africa has a share of over 5 million, representing about 35 per cent. This alarming refugee population is rapidly increasing at a time when the continent is faced with serious problems of economic recovery and transformation compounded by a reduction in external resources, the excruciating debt and debt servicing burden, deteriorating terms of trade, collapse of commodity prices as well as the vagaries of climate. 2. Africa fully realises that the major root causes of the refugee problem are situated within Africa, that the total eradication of these causes is the primary responsibility of the Africans themselves. However, considering the critical economic situation facing the continent as reflected and articulated in the Lagos Plan of Action and the Final Act of Lagos, the African Priority Programme for Economic Recovery (APPER), and the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development (UNPAAERD), it is clear
Human Rights Law in Africa Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2004
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