US Suspends African Refugee Program After Discovering Fraud - VOA - August 20, 2008

The State Department said Wednesday that a U.S. family-reunification program for African refugees has been suspended after DNA testing of applicants revealed widespread fraud. The suspension affects family members seeking to join East Africans, and some Liberians, already in the United States. The initial tests, involving about 500 mainly Somali and Ethiopian applicants examined in Nairobi, showed that only a fraction of them - about 20 percent - were blood relatives of those in the United States. Spokesman Wood said that after the Kenya sample indicated serious problems, the testing was expanded to East African and Liberian refugees awaiting resettlement in Ethiopia, Uganda, Guinea, Gambia and Ivory Coast. Read More.