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Hartishek was a former refugee camp in southeastern Ethiopia. The camp was located in a semi-arid desert region bordering Somalia. It was opened during the Somali Civil War in 1988 to host Somalians fleeing the war. It was once the world’s largest refugee camp.[1] bjhgfshudgfgbfsfas Refugee camp for Rwandans located in what is now the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following the Rwandan Genocide A camp in Guinea for refugees from Sierra Leone. ...
The Somali Civil War is an armed conflict in Somalia that started in 1988. ...
Later, Hartishek became home to more than 250,000 people, mostly Somalians from the Gabiley and Hargeysa areas in north-western Somalia. Gabiley is a town in the province of Hargeisa, Somaliland. ...
Hargeisa Hargeisa (Somali: Hargeysa) is a city in northwestern Somalia, it is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Somaliland which was formed in 1991. ...
The camp was closed in July 2004, but thousands of people remained there, mostly internally displaced persons (IDPs) from within Ethiopia. Others have left it to Somaliland after the end of the civil war. Tailor in Labuje IDP camp in Uganda An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who has been forced to leave their home for reasons such as religious or political persecution, war or natural disaster, but has not crossed an international border. ...
For other territories formerly called Somaliland, see Somaliland (disambiguation). ...
Mortality and malnutrition rates among children at the camp prompted many calls for humanitarian aid. Percentage of population affected by malnutrition by country, according to United Nations statistics. ...
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