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UNHCR Closes Refugee Camp In Ethiopia, Once World's Largest
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UNHCR Closes Refugee Camp In Ethiopia, Once World's Largest
Friday, July 2, 2004
Ethiopia's Hartisheik camp, once the world's largest refugee camp, closed Wednesday as the last of its inhabitants_were repatriated_to Somalia.
The return of the remaining 719 Somali refugees marks a milestone for the Somali repatriation movement, which has seen more than 230,000 refugees return home on U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees convoys since 1997._ Many others have_made their own way home.
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis flooded Hartisheik amid the fall of the Siad Barre government in 1988 and clan warfare in the early 1990s._ At its peak, the camp housed_more than_a quarter million refugees, mostly from the Gabiley and Hargeisa regions of northwestern Somalia.
UNHCR now_plans to hand over the camp's facilities, which include a dam, schools, community and health centers and prefabricated warehouses, to the district government in eastern Ethiopia.
Eastern Ethiopia still hosts_Somali_refugees in two remaining camps.__The Aisha camp is continuing to send refugees_back to northwestern Somalia, but the Kebribeyah camp_hosts refugees_from southern Somalia where insecurity prevents their return.
Refugees returning to the relatively peaceful northwestern Somaliland_region face challenges_compounded by high unemployment, illiteracy and infant mortality rates.
UNHCR will require more than $5.7 million this year for its operations in Somalia, the agency said.
14 years later, people can go back home...
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