0 25 5012.5 Km·

Boundaries

International Boundary

Regional Boundary

Zone Boundary

Woreda Boundary

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Towns

Mai-Aini

Regional Capital

Other Towns

Refugee Camps

Adi-Harush

Endabaguna

Mekele Town

Adwa Town

Shire Town Aksum Town

ShimelbaHitsats

Info-graphIcs TIgray regIon: IOM’s Eritrean Refugee Relocation 24 February, 2015

7,200

ToTal IoM assIsTed In

TIgray

Tigray

EritrEa

Sub oFFicE

TransporTaTIon and MedIcal check up

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ioM Sub-office in Shire deployed two dedicated buses and a van to relocate the refugees and their belongings. ioM has assigned doctors and nurses to conduct Pre-Departure Medical Screening and health assessments which identifies refugees’ fitness to travel before departure. ioM also provides water, biscuit and operational escort for all refugees. Moreover, aditional medical escort has been assigned to pregnant/lactating women, children, disabled, elders and other vulnerable refugees.

Following ARRA and uNHcR’s request, ioM has started providing transportation assistance for Eritrean refugees registered at Endabaguna screening centre by the Government of Ethiopia and uNHcR since 19 December, 2014. currently Ethiopia is hosting more than 76,000 Eritreans in four camps namely, Adi-Harush, Hitsats, Mai-Aini and Shimelba, in Tigray Region. in comparison to the number of refugees entering Ethiopia since 1998, there has been a large number of refugees entering into the country starting from March 2014, where monthly arrival rate have been registered at an average ranging between 2,000 and 2,500. From the total 7,200 refugees ioM assisted, 527 were unaccompanied minors.

ToTal arrIvals/ regIsTered and relocaTed

ioM’s presence

Relocation Direction

Major entry points

Kenya

Somalia

UgandaDRC

CAR

Chad

LibyaEgypt

Sudan Eritrea

Ethiopia

South Sudan

Yemen

Saudi Arabia

Tigray

R e d S e a

G u l f o f A d e nDjibouti

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International Boundary

Regional Boundary0 270 540135 Km·

IoM erITrean refugee relocaTIon 24 february, 2015

TRAVEL RouTES FRoM ENDAbAGuNA

MoNTH HiTSATS MAi-AiNi ADiHARuSH SHiMELbA ToTal by MonTh

DEc 1,500 60 77 5 1,642

JAN 919 0 1,697 16 2,632

FEb 2,283 367 260 16 1,993

ToTal by caMp 4,702 427 2,034 37 7,200

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