Mauritanians expelled from their homeland in 1989 during a wave of ethnic violence have started to return to Mauritania from Senegal, as part of an ongoing repatriation process run by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
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Since January 2008, some 4,000 black African Mauritanians have returned home. So far, fears that their return would fuel old ethnic tensions and create conflict over jobs have not materialised.
IRIN followed the journey of one group of refugees returning to Mauritania on a UNHCR convoy.
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