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Query Responses

Query responses are replies to focused queries or requests for Information that are submitted in the course of the refugee status determination process.

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Angola: Information on whether the following languages Lingala and Bakongo/Kicongo are spoken in Angola 11 March 2011 \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Query Responses
Zambia: 1. Please provide background and demographic information on the ethnic composition of Zambia and in particular the Tonga speaking people. Please include where they come from, what is their level of adherence to their traditional beliefs, and what is their relationship and standing within the modern Zambian community. 2. Please provide information on the customs and traditions associated with the death customs of the Tonga speaking people of Zambia. 3. Please advise the status of, the extent of and the legality of polygamy in Zambia. 4. Please provide some background information on Chief Hamusonde's chiefdom in the Monze District of southern Zambia. For example, what is it and how does it relate to other chiefdoms and Zambia generally? 5. Deleted. 6. Deleted. 7. Please provide information on the "cleansing ritual", the "naming ritual" and the "property grabbing" (presumably distribution of deceased estates) in Zambia. 8. Please provide information on local laws regarding "cleansing rituals", including whether the law permits it and whether the law requires condoms be used during such rituals. 9. Please discuss whether there are songs played on radio and television in Zambia regarding "unclean widows" called "Muka-mfwilwa", and how they warn men to stay away from them and how it encourages women to go back to their in-laws and be cleansed. 10. Please provide information on "widowed women in Zambia" as a possible particular social group. 11. Please provide information on the treatment of women and especially widows in the Tonga speaking ethnic group in Zambia. 12. Please provide information on the existence and activities of the women's lobby group in Lusaka. 13. Please provide general information on the effectiveness of police and state protection, and the extent of corruption in Zambia, particularly in respect to the protection of widowed or single women 24 November 2010 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
République du Congo : information sur le traitement réservé aux Laris et aux Vilis par le gouvernement; information indiquant si des conflits les opposent à une ou des minorités et, le cas échéant, la nature et la fréquence de ces conflits (2005-2010) 26 October 2010 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Sudan: Information on whether a southern Sudanese (Juba) Bantu educated in a Christian school could have English as the mother tongue and not know the Bantu language 1 March 1994 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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