Somalia, Drought, Fighting Worsens Situation of 'Ogaden Refugees'

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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks

12 August 2008
Posted to the web 12 August 2008

Nairobi

Drought and recent fighting around the town of Beletweyne, in central Somalia's Hiiraan region, have aggravated the plight of at least 1,000 Ethiopian refugee families, who were already facing acute food shortages, local sources told IRIN.

Most of these refugees, living in camps for the displaced in Bilis-did and Bulo-korah (on the outskirts of Beletweyne), are Somalis from Ogaden in Ethiopia's Somali region. They fled in 1977 during the war between Ethiopia and Somalia.