We traveled through the bush for two weeks, some relatives have died, others fled
Akobo Tergol is a small town in the western part of Ethiopia. Recently its population has grown due to the conflict in South Sudan and an influx of refugees into Ethiopia. More than 20,000 asylum seekers have crossed the river which forms the border between the two countries and WFP has been busy providing life-saving food assistance, in partnership with the national refugee agency ARRA.To provide food assistance to refugees who recently arrived from South Sudan, it takes WFP 15 hours to ship the food by boat to reach Akobo Tergol, near the South Sudan border from the point at Matar in Western Ethiopia, where the road stops…
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