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- Tuesday 21 May 2013
May 20, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has relocated over 1,480 Sudanese refugees from the border to Sherkole camp in Ethiopia pushing the capacity of the camp beyond the initial limit of 9,000 people. (...)
- Friday 17 May 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
May 16, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The United Nations special rapporteur on Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, said the human rights situation in the reclusive Red Sea nation remained “unacceptable”, calling for the country to (...)
- Saturday 4 August 2012
July 3, 2012 (JUBA) - The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and its partners have intensified efforts to reverse the alarming rates of malnutrition, disease and death in the two South Sudan based camps hosting thousands of Sudanese (...)
- Wednesday 7 November 2012
November 6, 2010 (KHARTOUM) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday began airlifting 1,370 extremely vulnerable South Sudanese from the Khartoum to Aweil, the (...)
- Monday 4 February 2013
February 2, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – Eritrea’s biggest opposition group on Saturday called for urgent action to stop rising abductions and disappearances against Eritrean refugees sheltered at Shagarab refugee camp in Eastern Sudan. Eritrean (...)
- Friday 15 March 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 14, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is preparing to relocate thousands of South Sudanese refugees stranded at Ethiopian border villages. Sudanese refugees (...)
- Tuesday 20 November 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
November 19, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The number of Somalia refugees sheltered at Ethiopia’s Dollo Ado refugee camp has hit a record high of 170,000 making it the world’s second largest refugee complex, according to the (...)
- Tuesday 9 April 2013
April 8, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - UN agencies in South Sudan’s Unity and Upper Nile states are stockpiling supplies of food and relief items, in preparation for a potential fresh influx of refugees from the Sudanese border states of South (...)
- Tuesday 25 September 2012
Highlights: Malnutrition rates in Yusuf Batil refugee camp in Upper Nile reduce, but are still over the global emergency threshold. Access to remote locations is severely curtailed due to seasonal rains. Refugee partners are preparing (...)
- Tuesday 7 September 2010
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
September 6, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) – Some 1,458 Eritrean refugees from various camps in Ethiopia were resettled to the United States (US) recently, the Ethiopian State Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (...)
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