by Chris Mgidu

NAIROBI， Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The UN refugee agency said Tuesday that it has repatriated some 49，376 Somali refugees in Kenya since the return exercise begun in December 2014.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its bi-weekly update that out of the figure， some 10，062 were supported in 2017 alone.

"The number of flights has been significantly increased as it remains the only mean of transportation to Somalia. Returns movements by air are organized to Mogadishu， Kismayu and Baidoa，" it said in a statement issued in Nairobi.

According to the UNHCR， road convoys were also organized from Dadaab in northeast Kenyan camp to Dhobley in Somalia respectively on Mondays， Tuesdays， Wednesdays and Thursdays.

"For the time being， flights from Dadaab to Somalia remain suspended owing to the security alerts in Mogadishu since December 23， 2016，" it said.

The UNHCR said a total number of persons relocated to KakumaKalobeyei camp in northwest Kenya was 2，431 as of Feb. 13. Out of this number， 2，220 were relocated since the resumption of the relocation process on Jan. 16.

The report came after two UN agencies last week warned that critical shortages in food assistance are affecting some 2 million refugees in ten African countries.

The UNHCR and WFP warned that the shortages could worsen in coming months without new resources to meet food needs.

According to the UN agencies， ten refugee operations in Africa have experienced cuts affecting the quantity and quality of food assistance for approximately 2 million refugees.

The agencies said food rations have been dramatically cut， in some cases by up to 50 percent， in large operations including in Cameroon， Chad， Kenya， Mauritania， South Sudan and Uganda.

Australia's Olympic hopes were dented Sunday as road cyclist Simon Gerrans withdrew from the Rio Games with an injury and Lleyton Hewitt was set to pull out as tennis coach.

Gerrans  Cheap Nike Air Foamposite One , 36, was due to ride in his third Games, but was forced to quit the Tour de France on Thursday after breaking his collarbone in a crash. He later underwent surgery in Spain.

"With my current injury my [Olympic Games] preparation would be seriously jeopardized, and so too my performance at the Games  Cheap Air Max 2 Light ," Gerrans wrote in a letter to team officials.

"For Australia to have the best chance to achieve the best result possible, I feel I should be replaced by one of the riders in the squad."

Cycling Australia will select a replacement rider later this week, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said.

Also representing Australia's men road cycling team are London Games track silver medallist Rohan Dennis and Richie Porte, a regular Grand Tour contender. A fourth rider has yet to be named.

Meanwhile  Cheap Air Max 2 Uptempo , Tennis Australia informed the AOC they would be applying to Olympic chiefs to replace coach and former world No.1 Hewitt with Mark Draper at the Games.

The formal process was expected to take several days as Draper was currently in the US, AOC's Mike Tancred told AFP on Sunday.

No explanation was given but The Sydney Morning Herald reported that veteran Hewitt's withdrawal was due to "personal reasons." The news is a -setback for the tennis team, with troubled stars Bernard Tomic and Nick Kyrgios already missing from the lineup after withdrawing from the Games.

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BEIJING  Cheap Air Max 2018 , March 13 (Xinhua) -- A total of 65 reform policies implemented in China's courts last year made the judicial system fairer for the people, said Chief Justice Zhou Qiang on Sunday.

Zhou made his comments when delivering a work report of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) to the National People's Congress (NPC).

Restrictions on case filing were lifted in May last year, meaning plaintiffs no longer need to wait for a pretrial court to examine case applications. As a result, 95 percent of court cases were accepted on the spot last year.

Two SPC circuit courts  Cheap Air Max 1 , which opened last year, concluded the trial of 1,653 cases in 2015. They have been dubbed "the SPC on the frontline."

In addition, three new courts dedicated to intellectual property rights (IPR) opened in Beijing  Cheap Air Max 120 , Shanghai and Guangzhou. Collectively, they closed 9,872 cases, with a considerable improvement of the quality and accuracy of rulings.

The SPC also strengthened enforcement. From January 2015 to February this year  Cheap Air Max 180 , 4.67 million people who failed to follow court orders were punished and 3.38 million discredited people were included on a publicly available blacklist.

Courts nationwide heard 4.67 million cases concerning the enforcement of court orders, up 37 percent from the previous year. Of these cases, 3.81 million were closed, an increase of 31.3 percent over the same period.