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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A first group of southern Sudanese refugees began their journey home Saturday after two decades of living in a camp in Kenya, U.N. food agency officials said.
The voluntary repatriation of 147 refugees is the first such return by some of the hundreds of thousands of Sudanese who fled the country during its long-running civil war.
"This first group is a hope for the future for all Sudanese refugees and displaced," Tesema Negash, the director of the World Food Program's operations in Kenya, said in a statement.
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