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Ethiopia opens additional camp for Somali refugees – UN agency

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2 December 2011 –

Hundreds of refugees in southern Ethiopia have been relocated from an overcrowded transit centre to a new camp, the fifth one in the area for Somalis fleeing conflict and drought in their homeland, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

 

The Bur Amino camp in Ethiopia’s Dollo Ado region was opened on Wednesday and has received the first group of some 400 Somali refugees so far, Andrej Mahecic, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told reporters in Geneva.

 

“The relocation to Bur Amino will decongest the transit centre,” said Mr. Mahecic. “For weeks, 7,500 recent arrivals from Somalia had been living in the centre, built to host one third of that population for a few days only.

 

 

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