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Buduburam is a refugee camp located 44 kilometers (27 mi) west of Accra, Ghana.It is along the Accra-Cape Coast Highway. [1] Opened by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1990, the camp is home to more than 12,000 refugees from Liberia who fled their country during the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996) and the Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003). [2]
The Buduburam refugee camp west of Accra, Ghana, home in 2005 to more than 40,000 refugees from Liberia. On March 7, 2003, the war tribunal Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) decided to summon Taylor and charge him with war crimes and crimes against humanity, but they kept this decision and this charge secret until June that year. [57]
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Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya was opened in 1991. In 2014, it was the third largest refugee camp worldwide. [53] [54] As of December 2020, Kakuma hosts 200,000 people, mostly migrants from the civil war in South Sudan. [55] Kala, Meheba and Mwange camps in the northwest of Zambia host refugees from Angola and DRC. [56]
Baqubah's name originates from the Aramaic words "Bet" (house) and "aquba" (Guardian or Punishment) meaning "The house of Punishment/The Guardian's house". [2] The city was used as a refugee camp for Assyrian refugees fleeing the Assyrian genocide. [3] A refugee camp was set up outside the city, which accommodated between 40,000 and 50,000 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Refugee Camp in Hebron, State of Palestine al-Arroub Camp Refugee Camp Arabic transcription(s) • Arabic مخيّم العروبة • Latin al-'Arrub (official) al-Aroub (unofficial) Palestinian demonstrators against occupation in El-Arrub al-Arroub Camp Location of al-Arroub Camp within ...
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 7,679 in 1,545 households, when it was in Mashiz Rural District of the Central District. [2] The following census in 2011 counted 3,912 people in 863 households, [3] by which time the Afghan Refugee Camp had been separated from the district in the establishment of Negar District.
Nyarugusu refugee camp was created by the UNHCR and the Tanzanian government in November 1996 [2] [4] after an estimated 150,000 Congolese refugees from the eastern Sud-Kivu region of the DRC crossed the border into Tanzania escaping civil war. Many Congolese refugees remained in the camp for decades, although the population of the camp was ...