UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls for support for Sudan as it hosts Ethiopia refugees

 UNHCR, Nov 29, 2020

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Sunday called for international support for Sudan as the country takes in more than 43,000 refugees who have fled fighting in neighbouring Ethiopia in recent weeks.

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Grandi said the decision by the government in Khartoum to receive the refugees, almost half of whom are children, was an example to the international community but the country needed help to bear the additional responsibility. 

People from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia have fled to the Hamdayet border point in eastern Sudan as well as to two other frontier points, one in Kassala State and the other at Lugdi in Gedaref state.

“The best tradition of African and Sudanese hospitality”

But the Khartoum government has identified the Um Raquba site, around 70 km west of the border, as a location for refugees to receive assistance in greater safety. Around 10,000 refugees have already been transported there.

In full: https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2020/11/5fc3dc604/un-high-commissioner-refugees-calls-support-sudan-hosts-ethiopia-refugees.html

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