A sea of makeshift benders in a large camp for Somali refugees. Hartisheik, Ethiopia
The camp was opened near the town during the Somali Civil War in 1988, to host Somalians fleeing the war. It was at one time the world’s largest refugee camp. Mortality and malnutrition rates among children at the camp prompted many calls for humanitarian aid. Later, Hart Sheik became home to more than 250,000 people, mostly Somalians from the Gabiley and Hargeysa areas in north-western Somalia. The camp was closed in July 2004, but thousands of people remained there, mostly internally displaced persons from within the Somali Region. Those who left it went to Somaliland after the end of the civil Sheik (also transliterated Hartishek) is a town in eastern Ethiopia, and best known as the location of a refugee camp operated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2000. According to materials at the Nordic Africa Institute website, the town may be named after a Somali sub-clan, the Harti. Both are located in semi-arid desert region, known as the Ogaden, near the Somali-Ethiopian border. Located in the Jijiga Zone of the Somali Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 9°9′N 43°21′ECoordinates: 9°9′N 43°21′E and an elevation of 1590 meters above sea level.
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Location: Hartisheik Ethiopia/Somali border
Photo credit: © Neil Cooper / Alamy / Afripics
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