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@RefugeesMedia - 21/01/2022
UNHCR is seeking US$59.6 million to provide emergency support to 100,000 refugees, IDPs, and host communities in Chad and Cameroon following intercommunal violence in Cameroon’s Far North Region. https://t.co/T3AuVmQM7P via @refugees
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@RefugeesMedia - 21/01/2022
We echo the UN-wide call for all parties in Ethiopia to protect civilians and to respect and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons, including refugees. Refugees must not be held hostage to this conflict.
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@RefugeesMedia - 21/01/2022
If food, medicine, fuel and other supplies cannot be immediately brought in, and if we continue to be unable to relocate refugees out of harm’s way to where we can provide them with life-saving assistance, more refugees will die.
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@RefugeesMedia - 21/01/2022
UNHCR has been calling on all parties for a ceasefire and guarantee of safe passage to allow us to voluntarily relocate the over 25,000 refugees in the camps to a new site provided by the government of Ethiopia in Dabat in the neighbouring Amhara region, without much progress
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@RefugeesMedia - 21/01/2022
Despite efforts, the inability to move supplies into the region means that extreme hunger is an increasing concern. Food is running out in the camps and no additional stocks are available Refugees told us they were selling their clothes and few belongings to try to get food
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@RefugeesMedia - 21/01/2022
The lack of fuel means that clean water can neither be pumped nor trucked to the camps, with refugees resorting to collecting water from streams that are rapidly drying up, leading to a severe risk of water-borne diseases.
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@RefugeesMedia - 21/01/2022
Refugees told us of increasing preventable deaths – over 20 in 6 weeks – linked to the decline in conditions, particularly the lack of medicine and health services. The clinics in the camps have been essentially closed since early January when they finally ran out of medicine
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@RefugeesMedia - 21/01/2022
After three weeks with no access due to the security situation, UNHCR staff reached Mai Aini and Adi Harush refugee camps in Tigray this week Our team found refugees scared and struggling to get enough to eat, lacking medicine and with little or no access to clean water
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@RefugeesMedia - 21/01/2022
UNHCR is deeply alarmed at the deteriorating conditions faced by Eritrean refugees in the camps in Tigray. https://t.co/Bgq3gx3qk0 via @refugees
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@RefugeesMedia - 14/01/2022
Resources are dangerously overstretched. Last year more than a third of our funding needs were unmet. To mount an effective response and devlier life-saving assistance and protection in 2022 in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali, UNHCR requires US$307 million.
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