In 2021, UNHCR and its partners reached over 1.7 million internally displaced people (IDPs) and returning #IDPs with assistance and protection in nine regions of #Ethiopia. Exhausted and displacedSince last December, the situation has been very tense in the Benishangul Gumuz region, which hosts more than 70,000 Sudanese and South Sudanese refugees and over 500,000 internally displaced Ethiopians. Benishangul Gumuz regional authorities have shown solidarity with the incoming refugees, said UNHCR, and identified a new temporary site, which can accommodate up to 20,000 people. Mr. Cheshirkov added that UNHCR has also recorded the arrival of 70 Sudanese refugees, mostly women and children, who fled the camps and returned to Sudan’s Blue Nile State. “UNHCR urges the protection of civilians, including refugees and those forcibly displaced”, he said.

Source: Ethiopian News February 04, 2022 23:53 UTC