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113 East African Refugees, Including Somali Migrants Relocated To Italy
 [RadioShabelle] A group of 113 Eritrea...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n, Somali and South Sudanese refugees who were living in Æthiopia’s refugee camps have left here for Italia on Monday through a relocation program. The 113 refugees, who are relocated to Italia as part of the "Humanitarian Corridor" initiative, include 88 Eritreans, 22 South Sudanese, and 3 Somalis, who had resided in Æthiopia’s refugee camps for some time. The Humanitarian Corridor program, which envisages rebuilding the lives of a total of 500 refugees, is an initiative established by the Italian Government in partnership with several humanitarian and faith-based- organizations, the Æthiopian refugee agency (ARRA) and the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... refugee agency (UNHCR). Zeynu Jemal, Deputy Director of Æthiopian Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA), said the initiative is an important step forward in "changing the lives of refugees as it also gives them hope and one way of curbing illegal secondary movements out of camps." "We value and greatly commend the Government of Italia’s contribution to creating a world more open to refugees and to the advancement of comprehensive responses to refugee situation," Jemal added. According to ARRA, half of the 113 refugees that were relocated to Italia are minors, including South Sudanese children born in Pugnido’s Refugee Camp in Æthiopia’s Gambella Regional state. Some 25 refugees from Somalia, Eritrea, and South Sudan left for Italia as part of the initiative’s first round of relocation program in December last year. The humanitarian corridor initiative is designed through a personalized method of accompaniment and integration with an Italian host family and community, it was noted. The initiative is said to be a response mechanism as refugees often risk their lives crossing the Sinai desert, Libya and the Mediterranean Sea with the aim of reaching Europe  ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...through the support of illegal human smugglers and traffickers. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-28 |
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