After 100 days of suffering for Sudanese refugees stranded in Camp “Olala” In the Amhara region of Ethiopia, Thursday morning witnessed a mass exodus of refugees who decided to return to Sudan On foot, due to security and humanitarian concerns.
Video clips showed hundreds of refugees carrying their belongings towards the Sudanese border, confirming their suffering from widespread security chaos and lack of basic services inside the camp.
#Sudanese_stranded_in_Ethiopia
After 100 days of suffering and death in the jungle, today we set out on foot towards Sudan. pic.twitter.com/xQy9K5w816— hala haya 5 (@NidalSaad4) August 8, 2024
With the spread of the videos on social media platforms, virtual world users interacted with the displacement movement, and re-circulated the hashtag #Sudanese_stranded_in_Ethiopia, and said that the refugees decided to move from the camp after they lost lives there and suffered from poor living conditions, and they also despaired of waiting and the lack of response to their calls by organizations concerned with human rights and refugees.
The Refugee Coordination Committee had previously issued a statement in which it indicated that the refugees had been subjected for more than 98 days to repeated attacks by armed groups, which included killing, kidnapping, looting, rape and theft. The statement also highlighted the poor services inside the camp and the resulting loss of life, injuries and diseases.
The coordination committee confirmed that the refugee commission in Ethiopia ignored the refugees’ demands to evacuate to a safe country or return to the border registration point, which prompted them to make the dangerous decision to leave in order to preserve their lives, holding all parties responsible for human rights and refugee protection responsible for any risks that refugees may be exposed to during the return journey.
The social media audience launched a campaign highlighting the suffering of Sudanese refugees fleeing the war between Sudanese army AndRapid Support Forces To the border areas between their countries andEthiopia.
Bloggers said that the refugees made repeated appeals to Ethiopian officials and the United Nations for aid, food, water, protection and evacuation, and eventually 6,080 refugees were stranded in the forests without any services, forcing them to return to their country, which is witnessing a bloody war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.
According to UNHCR estimates, the number of people fleeing Sudan to Ethiopia since the outbreak of war last April has exceeded 100,000.
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