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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The UN Refugee Agency has urged the Malawi Government to allow refugee families to remain in rural or urban settings where they can continue their education, be employed and operate their small businesses.<\/p>\n

The agency wants Malawi to reconsider its decision to relocate refugees living in rural and urban centres across the country back to Dzaleka camp, saying the relocation will have disastrous consequences on many refugee lives<\/p>\n

Some 8,000 refugees living in rural and urban locations are expected to return to the already congested Dzaleka camp, which presently accommodates 56,425 refugees. Dzaleka was originally established to accommodate up to 12,000 refugees.<\/p>\n

UNHCR has said in a statement that relocating several thousands refugees back to the camp will have dire consequences on the provision of critical basic services such as health services, education, and protection programmes.<\/p>\n

The UNHCR\u2019s representative in Malawi, Modeste Kouame, said relocation means that children will have to leave their schools and breadwinners abandon their employment or small businesses and return to a camp where they will be dependent only on humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n

UNHCR is also concerned about the extremely tight deadlines given to refugees for their relocation. Refugees living in rural areas have been given until 30 November 2022 and those living in urban locations until 1 February 2023 to relocate to Dzaleka camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile UNHCR applauds the government\u2019s offer of Luwani settlement as an alternative to Dzaleka camp, time and significant financial resources are needed to make it habitable with the installation of basic services such as water, sanitation, repairs to roads and other facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cCritical underfunding is already impacting current service provision to refugees and asylum seekers in Malawi. As of 31 October 2022, UNHCR had only received USD 4.9 million out of the USD 22.9 million required to adequately support refugees and asylum-seekers this year alone, in Malawi. This has crippled UNHCR\u2019s ability to meet the protection and livelihood needs of the people it serves.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelocating self-sufficient and productive refugees and asylum-seekers to Dzaleka will not only lead to loss of livelihood but will compel them to rely on humanitarian agencies which are all facing critical funding shortfalls,\u201d the organisation has said in its statement.<\/p>\n

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