Published on Pambazuka News (https://www.pambazuka.org)

Home > ETHIOPIA/SOMALIA: Camp for Somali refugees to be closed

Contributor [1]
Thursday, October 30, 2003 - 02:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
130 [3]
Article-Summary: 

An Ethiopian camp for Somali refugees - once the largest of its kind in the world - will close by the end of the year, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It said in a statement on Friday that the closure of Hartishek camp, located in a semiarid area near the border with Somalia – would bring to an end "one of world's most tragic refugee cases".

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/18013 [5]
Country: 
Somalia [6]

Source URL: https://www.pambazuka.org/node/19049

Links
[1] https://www.pambazuka.org/author/contributor
[2] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3296
[3] https://www.pambazuka.org/article-issue/130
[4] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3271
[5] http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/18013
[6] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3328