In 2004, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) began organising the repatriation of over 71,000 Angolan refugees from Zambia.[1] The first refugees returned by air, but a new land corridor from Zambia via Caianda for remaining
refugees.[2]
The refugees left Angola beginning in 1974 during the fighting between UNITA and MPLA forces.[3]