Sudan
116. The number of Ethiopian refugees in Sudan grew to an estimated total of 270,000 by the end of 1978. Many of those who had arrived in previous years had already been assimilated to a certain extent into local communities in Kassala Province, with the result that the assistance provided by UNHCR was primarily for the new arrivals and for those earlier arrivals who were living in temporary sites or were being transferred to newly established refugee villages.
117. During 1978 some 5,500 Ethiopian refugees were transferred from their temporary location at Wad-el-Hileiwu to the permanent settlements at Qala-en-Nahal, Es Suki and Um Gargur in accordance with the plan drawn up in 1976 for rural settlement in agriculture. The settlement plan allows for continuing settlement of refugees in 1979 at other sites in the Presidential Decree Area and near agricultural schemes at Rahad and New Halfa, where refugees may seek employment.
118. In July 1978 an emergency operation was undertaken in response to a new influx of some 8,000 Ethiopian refugees near Kassala and Damazine, most of whom have been accommodated in temporary camps. In December 1978 a further influx of over 5,000 refugees began to arrive in the Red Sea Province and programmes of emergency relief were prepared in early 1979.
119. Of the estimated 4,500 Zairian refugees in Sudan, some repatriated voluntarily, whilst others remain in Sudan, where they are self-sufficient.
120. UNHCR's expenditures in Sudan in 1978 under its General Programmes totalled over $2,588,000, including $1,814,000 for rural settlement and $480,000 for lower secondary education. An amount of over $862,000 was expended under Special Programmes, including $257,000 from the Education Account.
121. By the end of 1973 the number of refugees in Khartoum was estimated to be well over 20,000. UNHCR sponsored counselling and provided supplementary assistance to some 11,000 individual cases and close to 1,000 scholarships were made available for academic and vocational/technical training.
United Republic of Tanzania
122. It was estimated that at the end of 1978 there were 160,000 refugees of concern to UNHCR in the United Republic of Tanzania. Of this total, some 129,500 were from Burundi, most of them living in the organized rural settlements, 25,000 were Rwandese, 4,100 were Ugandans and smaller numbers were from Zaire, southern African and other African countries.
123. The organized settlements for refugees from Burundi are Ulyankulu and Katumba,
A the largest refugee settlements in Africa, and the new settlement at Mishamo. census revealed that the population at Ulyankulu stood at around 48,000. The transfer
At of about 1,000 refugees to Mishamo in the course of 1978 reduced this number. the request of the Government, the three project partners involved in the Ulyankulu settlement, namely the Government, UNHCR and the Lutheran World Federation/Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service (TCRS) have agreed that it will not now be handed over to the Government until the end of June 1980 in order to permit consolidation of the settlement after the departure of some further 24,000 refugees for Mishamo.
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