Funyido
Coordinates: 7 ° 45 ' N , 34 ° 30' E
Funyido (also written Fugnido ; Ethiopian script : ፉኝዶ Fuñədo ) is a village in the Gambela region in western Ethiopia . Within Gambela it belongs to the Woreda Gog , which is in Zone 2 or - according to more recent documents from the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia - in the Agnewak Zone (named after the Anyuak ethnic group ).
The place is located on the Gilo River and has been the location of a refugee camp since the late 1980s.
population
According to the Central Statistics Agency for 2005, Funyido had 2,832 inhabitants.
In 1994 the population was officially 1,647. The largest ethnic group were the Anyuak (77.29%), followed by the out of the highland derived Amhara (7.41%), Oromo (7.41%), Tigray (4.98%) and Gurage (2.19 %, including Soddo and Silt'e ); 0.73% belonged to other races.
Refugee camp
As a result of the civil war in South Sudan , numerous South Sudanese fled to western Ethiopia in the 1980s . A refugee camp was established near Funyido, the population of which far exceeded that of the town around 1989. In June 1990, according to a conservative estimate, around 76,000 refugees, mostly from the Dinka ethnic group, were living in Funyido. According to data from 1988, 94.6% of these were men, with a large proportion being unaccompanied minors . Many boys had lost their loved ones in attacks or while trying to escape. Others were recruited by the South Sudanese rebel army SPLA , which promised parents and children that they would get an education in Ethiopia. The SPLA - which, with the tolerance of the Ethiopian Mengistu regime, maintained military bases in the region and ran the refugee camps - recruited child soldiers in the camps of Funyido, Itang and Dima .
After Mengistu was overthrown in 1991, the SPLA evacuated the camp and the majority of the refugees went to Pochalla on the border.
The camp was later reopened. In November 2002, 42 people were killed in conflict between ethnic groups. At that time, according to the UNHCR, in addition to Dinka, Nuer, Anyuak and smaller minorities from Shilluk , Nuba and people from the Equatoria region lived in the camp.
Thousands of residents have returned to Sudan since the peace agreement for South Sudan was signed in 2005. However, according to information from 2009, around 20,000 remain in Funyido because there is food, schools and medical care here, while in South Sudan the educational and health infrastructure remains minimal and poverty and hunger are widespread.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Central Statistics Agency (CSA): 2005 National Statistics, Section – B Population ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Table B.4 (PDF; 1.70 MB)
- ↑ CSA: Summary and Statistical Report of the 2007 Population and Housing Census Results ( Memento of March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.53 MB), p. 80
- ↑ a b Jemera Rone, John Prendergast, Karen Sorensen, Human Rights Watch / Africa : Civilian Devastation. Abuses by all Parties in the War in Southern Sudan , 1994 (pp. 38, 196-200, 204-211)
- ↑ CSA: The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Gambella Region: Volume I Statistical Report ( Memento of the original dated November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 44.93 MB), 1995 (p. 36)
- ↑ Ethiopia: UNHCR able to visit Fugnido camp again , UNHCR Briefing Notes, January 10, 2003
- ↑ Jason McLure: Hooked on Aid , in: Newsweek, November 23, 2009
