Last updated: 30 july, 2009 - 16:12 GMT

Rwandan refugees last chance for aid

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Hundreds of returning refugees have crossed the border from Uganda into Rwanda as the deadline for their repatriation approaches.

Many of them have been there since the 1994 genocide but now, in a joint operation between the two governments, 20,000 people are being asked to return home.

The process will end tomorrow but it seems that some of the refugees don't want to go back to Rwanda and, with the clock ticking, many remain on the wrong side of the border.

Peter Ndoro spoke to our reporter Geoffrey Mutagoma, who is in Rukomo transit camp just inside Rwanda.

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