"Last week we had a meeting with the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and more than 1200 documents have already been distributed in Luanda", where the process began, said the Executive Secretary of the Episcopal Commission for Pastoral Care for Migrants and Travelers (CEPAMI) from Angola and São Tomé, Carla Luísa Frei.
The cards "have not yet reached other provinces, but in the capital this regularization is already underway", said the same official cited by Emissora Católica de Angola.
For the Brazilian missionary, the restart of this process, ten years later, is a reason for joy for CEPAMI and also for the thousands of refugees living in Angola.
"Now the Government has started to regularize them, ten years later, giving them a refugee card to live regularly in the country and which actually identifies them", she highlighted.
According to the CEPAMI secretary, around 56,000 refugees and emigrants seeking asylum from various continents around the world currently reside in Angola, most of them African, with emphasis on the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDCongo).
