Mauritania refugees return home

Mauritania refugees return home after 20 long years exiled in Senegal.

CHAN:
Mauritanian refugees have begun returning home from exile in Senegal, nearly two decades after they fled their homeland due to ethnic purges.

STORY:
The first of thousands of black Mauritanian refugees returned home from exile in Senegal on Tuesday. In 1989 they were forced to flee bloody ethnic purges by the regime of former dictator Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya.
Hundreds of people were killed and some 80,000 expelled when Taya's government drove them out.
Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who took office in April, pledged to improve human rights in the Islamic republic.
The refugees crossed the Senegal River by ferry to the Mauritanian side of the border town of Rosso. Their goods and livestock packed on white trucks of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR.

[Aw Abou Bakrin, Rosso Resident]:
"We are so happy for the arrival of these people today because it is an event we have waited 20 years for...It's a celebration for everybody, it is the joy for all Mauritania."

Roughly half of the Mauritanian refugees remaining in Senegal have already registered to return.

[Mamadou Keita,Refugee]:
"We will do our best to join our country again but we need to be shown at least the minimum of respect and that the things that have passed don't happen anymore."

There remain concerns over lingering racism in the Islamic state and unanswered calls for compensation and the trial of those responsible for the purges.

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[Teranga21]

Parce que tu te dis Mauritanien c'est ca???

They are Mauritanians just like you! I am Mauritanian & Senegalese and I hate when people make such comments. Is it because their black???? Remember that most Mauritanians are dark and brown skinned...

What makes an individual SENEGALESE and another MAURITANIAN????

[averyniceguy3]

she keeps saying something like 'mauritiusian' lol !

[Saheli9]

@SuperAfricagirl

We hate you too biatch

[Savanamann]

fuck everybody we are all the same. This is the reason why Africa will never rise from ignorance. STOP THE FUCKING HATRED AND DISCRIMINATION.

[cherrypiker112]

my aunt was also kicked out of mauritania.. she had to leave all of her belongings and left with her children, husband, and the clothes on their backs. It was very sad and she later died of depression.

[TheMauritanian]

ETFOU In Your Asshole..

Dirty Race...

[Saheli9]

U dumb racist

we dont need you in Mauritanie

ETFOU YOU DIRTY ARR (PIG)

[mansaballer]

maghrebi arabic is a different dialect it uses amny words from african languages so it isnt always easy to understand

peace