For the first time since the conflict began in Tigrayan last November, a team from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees was able to visit the Eritrean refugee camps in the northern Ethiopian region. The UN agency confirms that two of these camps, Shimelba and Hitsats, have been completely destroyed.
The 20,000 passengers in the two camps were scattered throughout Ethiopia. The UNHCR must therefore find an urgent solution for thousands of refugees, as Boris Cheshirkov, its spokesman for East Africa, explains.
What worries us is that there are up to 10,000 refugees scattered across the region with whom we have lost all contact. […] There is an urgent need for other places to cope with the influx of refugees, especially as it is soon the rainy season.
Boris Cheshirkov, UNHCR Spokesman for East Africa.
UNHCR needs new resources to take care of refugees. The UN received only 44% of the $ 99 million requested for the first six months of 2021.
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