AFRICA/CHAD - Operations continue to move 10,000 Central African Repulic refugees to Amboko camp

Monday, 25 July 2005

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Rome (Fides Service) - As part of its plan to transfer 10,000 Central African refugees sheltering in southern Chad to a camp where they can be better assisted, United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has moved 2,200 people (614 families) from the border area futher inland to Amboko camp. The operation started on 13 July and it aims to provide suitable assistance for these people who fled here from Central African Republic in June to escape violence caused by fighting between rebels groups and the army.
UNHCR is racing against time to move all these people to Amboko, near Gore in southern Chad before the rain season starts and roads become impracticable. Heavy rain already slows down the transfer process forcing trucks to make longer journies intead of passing across river beds dry at other times of year.
Last week the Chad government and local authorities said UNHCR may enlarge Amboko camp which already hosts 13,000 refugees from Central African Repulic to accept another 10,000. The refugees trasferred so far were at the border village of Betel, now operations concentrate on the villages of Matiti and Bekandja. (AP) (25/7/2005 Agenzia Fides; Righe:22; Parole:238)