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On the night of December 11 and the morning of December 12, several armed men attacked the refugee camps at Tinabaw and Tabangout-Tissalatatene. [3] According to the MSA, the attackers arrived on 20 motorcycles, while the CMA described a group of 9-12 individuals. [1]
Aid organizations feared that dysentery and other diseases could break out from the overflowing camp. [115] The United Nations stated that 84 people, mostly children, died on the way to Al-Hawl, since December 2018. [157] [158] This number was raised to 100 by the end of the battle, and the refugee camp population had swelled to at least 74,000 ...
Unofficial refugee camps, such as Idomeni in Greece or the Calais jungle in France, are where refugees are largely left without the support of governments or international organizations. [2] Refugee camps generally develop in an impromptu fashion with the aim of meeting basic human needs for only a short time. Facilities that make a camp look ...
There are two sets of teams, those in the Moroccan-controlled portion west of the berm and those in the Sahrawi-controlled region and refugee camps to the east and in Algeria. The camps west of the berm are located in Mahbes, Smara, Umm Dreiga and Auserd. The eastern camps include Bir Lehlou, Tifariti, Mehaires, Mijek, and Agwanit.
The Sahrawi refugee camps (Arabic: مخيمات اللاجئين الصحراويين; Spanish: Campamentos de refugiados saharauis), also known as the Tindouf camps, are a collection of refugee camps set up in the Tindouf Province, Algeria, in 1975–76 for Sahrawi refugees fleeing from Moroccan forces, who advanced through Western Sahara during the Western Sahara War.
Relay of French-speaking radio channel in Windhoek; UNAM Radio: Community Radio broadcast from University of Namibia on 97.4 FM only within the city of Windhoek and surrounding areas; West Coast FM: Broadcasting on 107.7 FM in Swakopmund and 106.9 FM in Walvis Bay. The only station in the Erongo Region broadcasting live, 24/7 from Swakopmund ...
Wendy McCance, director of the Norwegian Refugee Council in Bangladesh, warned that international funding for the camp would run out within 10 years and called for refugees to be given "livelihood ...
According to UNHCR statistics and the Algerian Red Crescent, the camp has a population of about 39,000 Sahrawi refugees. [2] [3] Attempts to create an accurate census have been met with resistance from the Moroccan government. [4] The refugee camp was named after the Western Saharan city of Smara. It is located about 30 miles (50 km) from ...