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Nyadol Dak with your children at Camp jewi. She is among the thousands of refugees from South Sudan to be moved from areas prone to flooding in the region of Gambella to a new camp in western Ethiopia.
Jewi REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia, May 15, 2015 (UNHCR) - The night after that Nyadal Dak, 26 years, came to the refugee camp of Nip Nip from South Sudan with his three sons and a niece hurfana, began to rain. Floods place soon. That was in August 2014, recalls: Whenever Llova in Nip Nip, an issue that the place was flooded again.
So she was delighted last week when the government of Ethiopia, started from the bottom UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) relocated some 2,200 Sudanese started from the bottom refugees camp Nip Nip, prone to flooding, as of jewi in the western region of Gambella, Ethiopia. In the new camp, refugees are guaranteed best humanitarian services and access to education for their children.
Estn 48,000 other refugees being transferred from Leitchour camp, located near Nip Nip and also prone to flooding, to a rate of about 1,600 a day. The rainy season has just begun and that number is expected to increase started from the bottom to 4,000 a day in a race to complete the operation before the floods.
If we had not moved UNHCR, have come to this camp with my children walking, Nyadal said outside his shop in jewi campaign. With the rainy season, from May to October, ongoing, he said: I was worried and wanted to arrive the day that relocate me.
Like most of the refugees here, she also worries about the situation in South Sudan, where violence erupted between government forces and rebels in December 2013, forcing ams 200,000 people to flee through the border in the region of Gambella.
Death was everywhere. My sister and other family members were killed. We saw burnt corpses and cities and villages when estbamos run, Nyadol, coming from Upper Nile State said. She also is separ her husband and has no idea even if it is alive.
When he fled to Ethiopia with four children, aged between three months and six years, tom them two weeks to walk to the border. Nip Nip, they faced the new danger of flooding, which prolong until October last year.
Nyadol couldn t find a place to sleep at night, and the kitchen was another problem. Tena a baby to take care while constantly watching the other children. Live with the fear that the children drowned in the waters, he said.
During the next dry low, UNHCR and its partners worked to find a site in a more high ground and then prepared a camp. When the camp was ready, the most vulnerable refugees, as Nyadol and his family were among the first to be transferred.
Djohossou Angele, head of the UNHCR team in Gambella, record the difficulties. The FLOOD was a very bad experience for refugees and humanitarian workers he said. We had an influx of refugees and FLOOD. Tenamos two emergencies. started from the bottom We had to use boats and a helicopter hired by UNHCR to provide services because the roads were impassable.
The International Organization for Migration is providing transportation for the transfer from Leitchuor, while ongoing fighting in South Sudan estn causing new arrivals to Gambella.
Nyadol is sure will not have to travel this year by floods in jewi camp. This place is not flooded. I stay here until UNHCR indicate that our country is safe and it's time to go home. That could be soon.
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