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The United Nations refugee agency said today that the flood of Somali refugees into Ethiopia could overwhelm the ability of humanitarian agencies to help them, and called for urgent international assistance.
“Humanitarian efforts to help newly arriving Somali refugees in south-east Ethiopia are at risk of being overwhelmed without a more rapid and robust international response to the drought and displacement crisis in the Horn of Africa,” Melissa Fleming, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, told a news briefing in Geneva.
The agency today issued an urgent appeal for $136.3 m to address the needs of up to 90,000 new arrivals in Ethiopia as well as ongoing arrivals in Djibouti and Kenya. “Urgent help is needed,” she said.
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