EPDP Information Office
During the month December of the year just ended, 1,122 Eritrean refugees, 77% of them male, have crossed the Eritrea-Sudan border to register at the Shagarab Refugee Camp in Eastern Sudan. There were 134 minors among the total for December.
According to the monthly reports since January 2010 by Harnnet.org sources from the field, the grand total of refugees that registered at the reception centre of Shagarab has now reached 65,962.
However, there are other refugees who reach Sudan and escape registration at Shagarab which is not well protected from human traffickers.
Eritrean refugee arrivals both in the Sudan and Ethiopia were estimated at about 3,000 per month in the last several years. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reports that it has a total of 305,723 Eritrean refugees in its recent registers.
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