More than 100 black Mauritanian refugees are returning home after 18 years in exile in Senegal.
The start of this repatriation process by the United Nations refugee agency follows the deal that Mauritania and Senegal signed last November.
UNHCR press officer Francis Kpatinde told the BBC that the repatriation is voluntary, saying, "those who are going back home, decided to go back home".
The citizens were expelled from Mauritania after racial riots in 1989.
Thirty-five thousand black Mauritanians fled into exile after ethnic purges in 1989 by Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya's Arab-dominated government.
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