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Refugees and Development in Africa the Case of Eritrea

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As a member of a friendship group working with a friendship link between Trondheim in Norway and Keren in Eritrea I have been interested in Eritrea and its people for a long time. I have been to Eritrea several times, and have also met some of the refugees, both refugees still in other countries and refugees that have returned home.

Gaim Kibreab is an Eritrean which has worked for the country and for Eastern Africa from abroad for many years. And he has a great knowledge on the country and the problems caused by the long conflict with Ethiopia.

Ready and Willing...but still Waiting, is the first in the Life & Peace Institute's new Horn of Africa Research Reports.

The book is meant for people with special interest in the area and the topic. When the report was written still nearly 400 000 Eritrean refugees were living in Sudan, willing to go back to Eritrea. The report tries to explain why they still are waiting to go home.

Today the situation is different. Refugees are returning home, and Eritrea is doing its best to greet them welcome. This is not easyin a poor country, where the resourses are few, especially the problem of finding enough water for all, is a main task. Still Kibreab's book gives very good background information, and a very intereting read for anybody interested in the topic.

Britt Arnhild Lindland