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The Return of Central African Refugees from Chad

By Isabelle DUTHEIL l LNC
Translated into English by Karen Ann SULLIVAN

(Bangui November 11, 2026 lNC) Last Thursday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced the implementation of a resettlement program for at least 61,000 Central African refugees to return to Chad,
Yet the security situation in Central Africa has improved since the bloody civil war of the 2010s, although, rebels remain active on the borders with Chad, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to the UNHCR statement: “61,000 Central African refugees were seeking repatriation.”
In this regard, an agreement on the practical modalities of such “voluntary repatriations” was signed on Thursday in N’Djaména between Chad, Central Africa and the UNHCR, according to the statement. “Chad hosts some 147,000 Central African refugees on its soil, mainly in the south of the country,” who have “arrived in multiple waves since the early 2000s following successive violence and conflict,” UNHCR statements add: matters of security, peace consolidation, national reconciliation and political stabilization in the Central African Republic have encouraged many refugees to envision their return”. Still according to UNHCR, the first repatriations were expected to begin “before the end of the year”, according to the organization.
They noted that Chad has hosted more than 1.5 million refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from Sudan, Central Africa, Nigeria and Cameroon.

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Date: November 11, 2026
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