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They came together in an extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday August 30, 2022, in Brazzaville, at the end of which they wished for their social integration in the host country. Refugees and asylum seekers in the Republic of Congo wish to be integrated. They expressed themselves during an extraordinary general assembly, held on August 30, in Brazzaville. These people pleaded for their effective care under the Lisungi project, a social protection system set up by the government of Congo whose beneficiaries should be only nationals but which has been extending to refugees for several years. . According to the president of the national community of these refugees, Achille Honoré Kobossina, in the department of Likouala the Lisungi project only took into account some of the refugees. “Many are suffering. Refugees and asylum seekers do not regularly obtain their social assistance. We need to be treated in relation to the international conventions ratified by the Congo”, he indicated. These refugees and asylum seekers in the Republic of Congo blame Terre sans frontières for the delays in receiving the sick, which causes the death of some. Their prescriptions are not exempt and not enough pharmaceuticals. In addition, they would like the UNHCR and the CNAR to communicate statistical data on the resettlement of refugees. The 1951 Convention and its 1967 protocol as well as the 1951 Convention provide a favorable legal framework for the integration of refugees in Congo, the host country. These people who have lived for years on Congolese soil are mostly nationals of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola and Rwanda.
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