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Contributor [1]
Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 03:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
72 [3]
Article-Summary: 

About 500,000 people have been displaced in Afar and are migrating to neighboring regions as an imminent drought is just around the corner due to the failure of rains for the past two years.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/8797 [5]
Country: 
Ethiopia [6]

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