Ghana-Sudan: Hundreds of refugees from Darfur trek to Ghana

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Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)

Date: 15 Apr 2005



ACCRA, 15 April (IRIN) - Several hundred refugees from the civil war in Sudan's western Dafur region have trekked west for 3,000 km, crossing five international borders, to seek asylum in Ghana.

They came into the spotlight for the first time this week when a group of 180 refugees from Darfur briefly occupied an unfinished building on the outskirts of the capital Accra.

<snip> Mubarak said he was hassled by the local authorities in Nigeria, where he had initially hoped to stay, and he had deliberately passed through Benin and Togo, because he could not speak their official language, French.

He and a few of the other Sudanese refugees who occupied the half-buillt offices of Ghana's National Bureau of Local Languages on Tuesday were able to speak halting English. <snip>

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACIO-6BGRCJ?OpenDocument

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. They ended up in GHANA?

That's quite a story.