Approximately 60 Blue Nile refugees have been taken from their camps by the Sudanese authorities with assistance from the Ethiopian authorities, allegedly to the mining fields at the Sudanese-Ethiopian border.

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, a refugee from the Tango refugee camp, Omda Faisal Dirar said that the Blue Nile refugees at Tango, Bambasi, and Kubri Khamsa camps are experiencing a deteriorating security situation.

He says that the 60 missing refugees have been detained by the Sudanese authorities in the Blue Nile state’s capital Damazin. The refugees are sceptical about the intention of the Sudanese authorities and the Ethiopian police. 

Families of the missing refugees appeal to the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR to quickly intervene and release them as well as provide protection to the needy refugees in the camp, Dirar echoed.

The Federal Republic of Ethiopia accommodates thousands of refugees who fled from Sudan’s Blue Nile state since the war between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Army-North intensified in 2011.

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