‘Refugees included in census mapping’

REFUGEES will now be included in the national development planning agenda after government extended its census mapping exercise to Tongogara refugee camp in Chipinge and other camps around the country ahead of the census next year.

Tongogara Refugee Camp administrator Johannes Mhlanga on Saturday told the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats) and journalists of the new development during a tour of the camp.

Mhlanga said refugees in the country had all along been sideline in national development programmes, including the National Development Strategy (NDS 1), which government is currently implementing.

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