GUINEA: REFUGEES DESERT NYAEDAU CAMP AND WAIT IN SQUALID CONDITIONS TO BE TAKEN TO NEW LOCATION

Record ID: 275208

  • Title: GUINEA: REFUGEES DESERT NYAEDAU CAMP AND WAIT IN SQUALID CONDITIONS TO BE TAKEN TO NEW LOCATION
  • Date: 14th February 2001
  • Summary: NYAEDAU CAMP, SOUTHERN GUINEA (FEBRUARY 12, 2001)(REUTERS) 1. SLV/MV MATTRESSES ABANDONED BY REFUGEES IN CAMP (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. SLV HUTS INSIDE EMPTY CAMP/ PAN TO DESTROYED BUILDING IN CAMP; DESERTED BUILDINGS; MV UPTURNED BENCHES AFTER REFUGEES LEFT IN A HURRY; SLV DESERTED HOUSE; SCU HAND PRINTS ON WALL INSIDE HOUSE (6 SHOTS) 0.36 3. MV T
  • Embargoed: 1st March 2001 12:00
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  • Location: NYAEDAU AND KATKAMA REFUGEE CAMPS, SOUTHERN GUINEA
  • Country: Guinea
  • Reuters ID: LVA6ZBH3L29WZQV27YUAGK6GAHK9
  • Story Text: A refugee camp in southern Guinea lay deserted on
    Monday, three days after the refugees living in it apparently
    fled. Refugees who left the Nyaedau camp, are now waiting in
    squalid conditions, to be taken to another location.

    The United Nations is urging the international
    community to enforce tough sanctions on Liberia for its part
    in the West African conflict that has caused the world's worst
    refugee crisis in Guinea.

    Guinea is host to 450,000 Liberian and Sierra Leonean
    refugees who fled civil wars in their countries in the 1990s.

    Many of them have now been caught up in battles between
    Guinean forces and shadowy groups of fighters that Guinea says
    are backed by Liberia and Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary
    United Front (RUF).

    Nyaedau refugee camp in southern Guinea was deserted on
    Monday (February 12). The sight of overturned benches and
    abandoned belongings, including mattresses, gave the
    impression the refugees had left in a hurry.

    Many of the refugees who left Nyaedau are waiting in
    Katkama camp to be taken to another location.

    For some, the move can't come quickly enough. One woman
    refugee said conditions in Katkama camp were squalid.

    "We want food, but the most important thing we want is
    that we want to move from here to Kantayeh (a new location
    setup by the United Nations) because we are suffering here too
    much," she told Reuters.

    The United Nations has already proposed sanctions against
    Liberia because of its role, documented in U.N. reports,
    in trafficking diamonds and arms for rebels in Sierra Leone.

    The West African ECOWAS bloc has pledged to send 1,700
    troops to the border to halt the fighting but the force has
    not yet deployed.

    Guinea and Liberia have been accusing each other for
    months of aiding rebels in their respective territories.

    Hundreds of people have been killed in five months of
    attacks.


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