Ethiopia: Asylum Seekers Lacking Food and Shelter in Gambella, Ethiopia

press release

Thousands of asylum seekers from South Sudan have been stuck for months in appalling conditions in a reception centre in Gambella region, western Ethiopia. People are without meaningful access to essential services, especially food. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is worried that conditions will deteriorate even further in the upcoming rainy season.

Nyaluak Tang*, her husband and six children walked for almost one month from South Sudan's Jonglei State to the Ethiopian border village of Pagak, where they arrived in August 2020.

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