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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has started relocating hundreds of people fleeing an upsurge in fighting and tightened access to humanitarian aid in southern and central Somalia to a camp in neighbouring Ethiopia.
The agency is moving the refugees from a transit centre in Dolo Ado in Ethiopia, near its border with Somalia, to a new camp in Melkadida over 60 kilometres away, spokesperson Melissa Fleming told reporters today in Geneva.
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The first convoy, comprising 11 buses and two trucks, transported 247 refugees to the new site. They are the first of 7,000 Somalis who have been recognized as refugees by the Ethiopian Government with UNHCR’s support. Under current plans, 500 refugees a week will be moved from Dolo Ado to the new camp.
Melkadida is the second camp in southeast Ethiopia and the fifth in the country to host refugees from Somalia. The first site in Bokolmanyo, which opened last April, was built to accommodate 20,000 people and has already reached capacity.
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Likewise, the new camp at Melkadida can host up to 20,000 refugees and UNCHR, together with its partners, are working to expand basic infrastructure, including water services and the erection of a health centre. The building of elementary schools is also in the pipeline.
“Somalis are arriving in Ethiopia at an average of 200 individuals per day, and we are already planning for further camps near Melkadida,” Ms. Fleming noted. At present, over 60,000 Somalis are living in four camps, including Bokolmanyo, in Ethiopia’s Somali region.
