Angola is creating the logistical and technical conditions for the start of the repatriation process to allow some 90,000 Angolan refugees to go home.

A press note published on Wednesday after an Angolan Cabinet Standing Commission meeting presided over by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos reads that, out of that number, 19,000 already came back.

The note adds that, until the present date, a total of 247,000 Angolan refugees have returned home from neighboring countries.

During the 27-year civil war ending in 2002, four million Angolans were displaced and another half million were in refuge in neighboring countries.

Source: Xinhua