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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 Budumburam Camp in the Central Region of Ghana is home to over 11,000 Liberian refugees. These refugees have lived in the camp for over two decades since they fled the civil war in that country. [5] In 2008, about 500 Liberian refugees in the camp embarked on an "indefinite sit-down strike". This was to draw attention to the perceived ...
Fighters from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have torched parts of Sudan’s largest refugee camp, firing indiscriminately at people, including women and children, according to ...
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]
Otiri and Omot fled from Gambella across the border of South Sudan before heading to the Gorom Refugee Camp, a settlement of Anuak who fled violence in Ethiopia. ‘Friend Of The System’ The World Bank has long made Ethiopia a top priority, funneling loans to its government to help the East African nation of some 90 million people move past ...
She is a survivor of the Second Congo War, and the 2004 massacre at the refugee camp in Gatumba, Burundi, by the National Liberation Front of Burundi. She spent a few years in Africa as a stateless refugee, before the U.N. offered her family a chance to relocate to America in late 2005. The application and screening process took years, but in ...
The worst almost happened to a senior cat and now an animal rescue in New York City is hoping to give her a new life. NYC Second Chance Rescue says they recently received a “disturbing” call ...
The New York Times stated that after Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF) arrived in the Hitsats refugee camp in the Tigray Region on 19 November 2020 during the Tigray War, in addition to carrying out beatings and extrajudicial executions, the EDF forcefully took 40 Eritrean refugees back into Eritrea.