About 900 kilometres west of Addis Ababa in Gambella is the sprawling Leitchour refugee camp. This has been home to Anter Gatluak Muon, 37, and his family since the end of January. Anter, along with about 150,000 people from South Sudan, fled to neighbouring Ethiopia following the outbreak of violence that started in December 2013. […]

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As the Ethiopian Government continues to receive its citizens from Saudi Arabia, the Ethiopian Red Cross Society(ERCS) has joined hands in supporting the returnees to get back them to their normal lives. The Society deployed its staff, volunteers and resources to the situation that is now requiring emergency response. ERCS deployed some 60 volunteers who […]

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Buses full of South Sudanese refugees drive through the mango and fish rich town of Gambella, in southwestern Ethiopia, before finally arriving at the newly set up refugee camp of Leitchor near the border with South Sudan. According to official sources, there were more than 29,000 refugees in the Leitchor camp which opened in January, […]

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