According to the UNHCR, since November 2020, Sudan has welcomed and assisted some 58,000 Ethiopian refugees and asylum seekers but the refugees there put the number of people in the two camps as high as 80,000. He added that thousands of Sudanese IDPs who are displaced by the ongoing fighting are also fleeing to refugee camps creating overcrowding, adding that the monthly food aid they used to receive has already been interrupted. Another Ethiopian refugee living in Um Rakuba camp, Haftom Teklay, 30 also told Addis Standard that the number of people from the towns who are seeking shelters in the refugee camps has been increasing from time to time. The embassy didn’t say whether the assistance includes those in the refugee camps. According to the UNHCR Sudan currently hosts 1.1 million refugees from neighboring countries including Ethiopia and some of the refugees have been forced to prematurely return home to deep uncertainty.

Source: Ethiopian News April 29, 2023 07:39 UTC