Refugee Council, UNHCR provides assistance to Burkina Faso refugees – Tetteh Padi
The Program Coordinator for the Ghana Refugee Board, Mr. Tetteh Padi, said the board and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) are taking steps to accommodate some of the refugees who entered the country from Burkina Faso.
Refugees living in West Bawku District in the North East Region are appealing to the government and humanitarian organizations to help them with their basic needs until they can return to their country.
More than 3,000 refugees from neighboring Burkina-Faso have been forced out of the country by violent extremist activities and are thus seeking support to feed their families.
Violent extremist activities in neighboring Burkina-Faso in recent times have resulted in the death of Burkinabes and the displacement of more than 3,000 including women and children.
These refugees sought asylum in Sapelega in West Bawku District.
Housed in unfinished structures, these refugees face health hazards, poor shelter and depend only on food donated by local residents or non-governmental organizations.
In an interview with Read TVMr. Padi said that some refugees have been registered, but the number continues to increase every day.
“We are already in the field and we have registered some, but as you know, the number continues to increase, so we together with UNHCR are switching to see what kind of intervention we can do.”
Meanwhile, during his actual visit to assess the situation of refugees in Sepelega, the Upper East Regional Director for the National Commission for Citizenship Education (NCCE) Mawuli Agbenu, asked the government and humanitarian organizations to help the refugees with their basic needs and integrate them. with his relatives in Ghana.
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