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UNHCR News Story: Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia get new camp in north of country
At the Endabaguna reception centre in northern Ethiopia, Eritrean refugees board a bus for transfer to a new refugee camp at Hitsats. Most of the refugees are young men from cities rather than women and children.
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Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia get new camp in north of country
HITSATS, Ethiopia, June 13 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has opened a new camp in northern Ethiopia to house the increasing number of Eritrean refugees entering the country. A total 776 Eritrean refugees have already been transferred to Hitsats Camp, which can house up to 20,000 refugees.
"This is a big step forward in the protection of Eritrean refugees in this area," said Michael Owor, head of UNHCR's sub-office in Shire, which has erected 200 family tents and dug a communal well to handle the arrival of the new refugees at the camp on land provided by the Ethiopian government.
The government has also set up a temporary medical clinic and reception facilities for arriving refugees.
So far this year, UNHCR and the government's refugee agency, the Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA), have registered more than 4,000 Eritrean refugees, overwhelming the capacity of the existing three camps in the region, which house nearly 49,000 refugees. A large number of the new arrivals are unaccompanied minors who require special protection.
What is unusual is that most of the Eritrean refugees fleeing to Ethiopia are young educated men from cities, unlike most refugee situations where the majority of refugees are women and children.
The predominance of young men is a pattern observed throughout the region, where Eritrean refugees tell UNHCR staff they are fleeing indefinite military service for both men and women.
In eastern Sudan, the UN refugee agency has also seen a significant number of children arriving on their own, but the number of refugee arrivals has dropped to between 400 and 600 per month this year from 2,000 a month in 2012. The total number of Eritrean refugees in Sudan is more than 114,500.
In Djibouti, arrivals are holding steady, at 112 for the first five months of this year, practically the same as the 110 Eritreans who arrived in the same period last year.
Eritrean refugees cross into Ethiopia through 16 entry points from which they are collected and brought to a reception station for screening and registration. Before departure from the reception centre, the refugees are issued with basic assistance items, including sleeping mats, blankets, jerry cans, water buckets, soap and mosquito nets. They are also provided with tents and food rations once they get to the new camp.
As of the end of May, Ethiopia is hosting 71,833 Eritrean refugees in four camps in Tigray region and two others in the Afar region in north-eastern Ethiopia. Transfers to the new camp are taking place every second day.
By Kisut Gebre-Ebziabher in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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UNHCR News Story: Fighting in South Sudan's Jonglei state displaces tens of thousands
Refugees from an earlier wave of violence in Jonglei state gather under the shade of a tree in the Ethiopian border town of Matar
UNHCR / S. Tessema / February 2012
Fighting in South Sudan's Jonglei state displaces tens of thousands
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 11 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday it was alarmed by fighting between government forces and armed troops in South Sudan's Jonglei state, which has displaced tens of thousands of people since erupting in March.
"In Pibor county in particular, we have seen increasing tension and serious allegations of a break-down in law and order, evidenced among other things by indiscriminate abuses and looting of civilian property," a UNHCR spokesperson said. Most of Pibor's 148,000 people are affected and many have been displaced more than once by the hostilities. Many people have fled into the bush, into areas that are hard to reach.
The security constraints have made it difficult for UNHCR to monitor the situation and to respond to humanitarian needs. Finding and reaching people affected by fighting in Jonglei is a major concern. "When we get access, we have been conducting border monitoring missions to assess population movements and we are sharing this information with neighbouring countries," the spokesperson said.
Many civilians are walking long distances to find sanctuary in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. In the first five months of this year, UNHCR registered 5,397 refugees from Jonglei state at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in north-west Kenya. These numbers are significant: this is approaching the total that arrived there in all of last year and is more than double the number who arrived in 2011 or 2010.
In Uganda, some 2,700 refugees from Jonglei have arrived since the beginning of the year, averaging about 527 per month.
The fighting in Pibor has resulted in an influx into Ethiopia, but on a smaller scale than some recent reports have suggested. Around 16,000 people arrived mainly between February 2012 and February 2013 – before the most recent fighting.
UNHCR assessment teams have just returned from the border inside Ethiopia where they established the arrival of 2,178 refugees between May 7 and June 7. Some new arrivals reported that more people were on their way to Ethiopia from the Nyalongoro, Kaiwa and Niate areas of South Sudan.
"In South Sudan, we are working both in Jonglei state and at the national level to advocate for better protection of displaced people," said the spokesperson. As part of the humanitarian community, UNHCR is engaging with the government, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, key members of the diplomatic community and other stakeholders to ensure protection of civilians and improved humanitarian access.
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74 giorni, 8400 km e 10 stati di cui 7 in Africa: Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Etioipia, Sudan ed Egitto poi Italia, Francia e Inghilterra.
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Map of six villages in Blue Nile State
A map of the six villages - Jegu, Gabanit, Bau, Marol, Taga, and Fadmiyya - examined by DigitalGlobe Analytic Center (DGAC) for Amnesty International's report 'We had no time to bury them' War Crimes in Sudan's Blue Nile State .
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