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Aid workers withdraw from four refugee camps after disturbances

12 May 2005 - IRIN

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]

Aid agencies have withdrawn their staff from four refugee camps in eastern Chad following disturbances which led to the injury of seven aid workers in one particular incident, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.

"UNHCR personnel and NGO staff withdrew from the camps of Iridimi, Touloum, Mile and Kounoungou on Tuesday 10 May," the UNHCR said in a statement released in Abeche, the main town in eastern Chad.

These camps house some of the 193,000 refugees from Sudan's troubled Darfur region who have fled into eastern Chad since the Darfur conflict erupted over two years ago.

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