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@RefugeesMedia - 23/10/2015
Most Sahrawi refugees living for 40 years in harsh Tindouf. #UNHCR urgently appealing to donors for emergency funds for flood crisis
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@RefugeesMedia - 23/10/2015
Syrian #refugees more vulnerable than ever as winter looms: savings long gone, jewellery sold off, mired in spiral of debt.@melissarfleming
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@RefugeesMedia - 23/10/2015
There is little rain in the Sahara for most of the year, when it does come it can be devastating, especially for refugees' mud-brick houses
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@RefugeesMedia - 23/10/2015
Latrines need to be rebuilt, floodwaters need to be quickly removed to avoid disease, contamination of water sources & building collapses
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@RefugeesMedia - 23/10/2015
Other infrastructure damaged or destroyed in Tindouf includes dispensaries, hospitals, schools, shops, livestock sheds
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@RefugeesMedia - 23/10/2015
Those living in traditional Sahrawi tents were spared worst of devastation, but only a minority of families possess such tents
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@RefugeesMedia - 23/10/2015
Homeless sheltered by relatives & neighbours. #UNHCR to airlift 1.5K tents, 10K plastic sheets & 400 plastic rolls as well as blankets
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@RefugeesMedia - 23/10/2015
15 million displaced #Iraqis and #Syrians in the Middle East are bracing for another winter away from home: Amid Awad briefs @UNGeneva
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@RefugeesMedia - 23/10/2015
#UNHCR leading humanitarian response, working with Sahrawi refugees to provide bread, fresh food and drinking water to the camps.
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@RefugeesMedia - 23/10/2015
No reports of casualties among #refugees in tindouf's hardest hit Awserd and Dakhla camps as well as Laayoune, Boujdour and Smara camps
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