MAURITANIA: Repatriated refugees returning to Senegal

DAKAR Monday, October 20, 2008 (IRIN) - Dozens of young Mauritanians recently repatriated from Senegal are crossing back over into long-time refugee communities because schools in Mauritania are not ready to take them in, according to the youths. Hadry Yaro, 18, returned to Dodel in northern Senegal on 17 October. “There were no classrooms for us [in Mauritania]. It was as if no one expected us to be there. I need to finish school, so I came back alone and am living with my uncle in Dodel.”...