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Aw-barre Refugee camp is located in the Fafan Zone of the Somali Region of Ethiopia. It was established in 2007 by the Ethiopian Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to accommodate Somali refugees seeking international protection and asylum in Ethiopia .
Since November 2020, Sudan has been grappling with a substantial influx of refugees, primarily due to the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. [7] The tensions between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front have forced thousands to flee, with an expected influx of 200,000 refugees over six months.
The current refugee law in Ethiopia is one of the best refugee law in the world, and this is the contribution of Zeynu Ummer, who drafted the law and convinced the parliament to approve it. He also led the design of a 10-year strategy on self-reliance of refugees and uplifting socio-economic situation of refugees.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed distribution of food to roughly 900,000 refugees across Ethiopia after revamping safeguards and controls, following reports of large-scale theft of ...
Vendôme Pictures has acquired the remake rights to produce a scripted adaptation of ”A Fire Within,” an award-winning human rights documentary about Ethiopian refugee Edgegayehu “Edge” Taye.
Project Mercy recently embarked on a new orphan and foster care program called the "Children’s Institute". This was in response to a request by the local government of the Oromia Region in Ethiopia if they would accept and provide care for vulnerable children, many of whom are HIV/AIDS victim orphans. The plan provides for an intimate and ...
The Ethiopian Refugee and Returnee Service said last month that the people deported were not refugees or asylum seekers - a statement the U.N. experts said contradicted other reliable sources.
The war with Ethiopia and Eritrea resulted in hundreds of thousands of displaced people. Ethnic clashes had left nearly 100,000 Ethiopians internally displaced. The total number of refugees and IDPs was 65,293 and 250,000 respectively. An estimated 38,500 refugees had gone through the UNHCR-led voluntary repatriation program started in 2004. As ...