Eritrea-Refugee+Cause

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This is a picture of Eritrean refugees in an Ethipoian camp.

In 2005, it was reported that 215,300 refugees from Eritrea were still displaced because of drought, food shortages, and war. The drought is due to Eritrea being an extremely dry climate. Rain in this region is becoming scarce which has caused the crops to fail miserably. Because the crops won’t grow, there is a frightening food shortage, which has led to 20% of the small population to suffer from malnutrition. The Eritrean Ministry of Health has predicted that if the weather and crop conditions do not improve soon, there will be a serious case of famine. Also, the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia has caused many businesses to fail and close down, leaving many citizens unemployed and in extreme poverty. It was reported that in May of 2001, 934 Eritrean refugee's were released from a camp in sudan, however nearly 150,000 remain. This camp in Sudan is one of the oldest refugee camps in the world because many of the 150,00 people still there have occupied the camp since roughly 1967, only a few years after the start of the long Eritrean-Ethiopian war.

This is a chart showing how malnutrition increased within only seven months in 2002.

http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/country/detail/2923/ This website gives an in-depth report on the refugee cause in Eritrea along with an explanation as to how the conflicts got started. http://www.unsystem.org/scn/archives/rnis40/greaterhorn.htm This website also gives great information.

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Sources: "Drought-Hit Eritrea Expels NGOs." __BBC News__. 22 Mar. 2006. 6 May 2007 <[|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4834936.stm>.] "Growing Concerns Over Eritrea Drought, Famine." __Afrol News__. 13 Oct. 6 May 2007 <[|http://www.afrol.com/articles/14531>.]

"World Refugee Survey 2004 Country Report." __U.C. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants__. 2004. USCRI. 6 May 2007 <[|http://uscr.org/countryreports.aspx?area=investigate&subm=19&ssm=29&cid=98>.]

"Standing Committee on Nutrition." __United Nations System.__ 27 Apr. 2007__<__http://www.unsystem.org/scn/archives/rnis40/greaterhorn.htm>

"Eritrea". Refugees International. Jan. 2004

"Eritrean Refugees Head Home." BBC News. May 15, 2001. 

"Statistics on Uprooted Peoples-Africa." Church World Service: Immigration and Refugees. March 13, 2007