Osire
Osire is a
UNHCR regards the camp as one of the best managed in the world, due to its provisioning of formal school education, both primary and secondary. The settlement further has a police station and a clinic.[2]
The camp used to be a detention centre during the
No Man's Land between Namibia and Botswana[5] for three months until being arrested by Botswana authorities and deported to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[6]
References
- ^ "Spotlight Falls on Osire Refugees" by Petronella Sibenene, New Era, 19 June 2008
- ^ Andima, Jordaania; Kenyon, Jack (26 June 2014). "Alone in a crowd ... the story of Osire Refugee Camp inhabitants". The Namibian.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b USCRI[permanent dead link] Trapped in Osire Refugee Camp
- ^ Medilinkz Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine 20 Oct 2003: NAMIBIA: Unrest at Osire refugee camp
- ^ Namibia National Society for Human Rights Archived 2010-11-16 at the Wayback Machine Government washes hands off 41 refugees
- ^ "Botswana to deport runaway refugees", The Namibian 9 Oct 2009, by Nangula Shejavali