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The U.S. says it will increase the number of African refugees it takes in next year, by nearly 50 percent.
It’s part of Washington’s expanded resettlement programme, following numbers released earlier this week.
Of the 110,000 the U.S. intends to begin admitting at least 40,000 are from the Near East and South Asia, a White House senior administration official said.
CCTV’s Roee Ruttenberg has more.
