Ethiopian Refugees in Sudan to be ScreenedThe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is sending a team of 15 experts to Khartoum, Sudan, to help screen the Ethiopian refugees, who fled their home country before 1991, said a UNHCR press release issued here Thursday.The experts, who are expected to arrive in Sudan this week, will provide training to 15 of their counterparts recommended by the Sudanese authorities before carrying out together the screening work. Since the collapse of Ethiopia's Mentistu government in 1991, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian refugees in Sudan have been repatriated back to their home country, with the help of the UNHCR. However, Sudan still hosts a large number of Ethiopian refugees, with 12,000 of them in refugee camps, and twice as many in urban areas. The new screening exercise will start in November and a voluntary repatriation will follow in December, according to the news release. |
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