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Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 - 11:59 Makkah mean time-8-1-1437
Pic: UN News Center
Baghdad (IINA) – The UN refugee agency has opened its most recent camp for internally displaced persons in Iraq’s restive Anbar province. Anbar hosts the largest number of refugees from among 3.2 million Iraqis uprooted across the country where more than 250,000 civilians have fled their homes over the past six months, UN News Center reported.
The new “Marzaki camp is strategically located close to the bridge connecting Anbar and Baghdad provinces so that residents can have access to safety in case conflict lines move closer to the camp,” said Bruno Geddo, Representative of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iraq.
“Displaced people scattered throughout the area in poor living conditions will now be able to properly settle down and benefit from medical and other services close by in Baghdad,” Geddo said in a press release issued in Baghdad.
According to the agency, the new camp that opened Monday can provide shelter to some 3,000 displaced Iraqis who have been living in schools, unfinished buildings or staying with relatives around Ameriyat al-Fallujah in Anbar, which has become a safe haven for uprooted Iraqis in the province.
More than 250,000 civilians are estimated to have fled Ramadi since April, with the majority staying inside Anbar province itself living with host families, in informal settlements, unfinished buildings, schools or renting apartments.
There are currently some 3.2 million internally displaced Iraqis spread across 3,000 different locations across the country, according to the refugee agency, adding that Anbar province hosts the largest number of those uprooted – some 580,000 or 18 percent of the total displaced population.
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