South African Government has completed the relocation of some 250 families of Somali refugees from Fishhoak village in Southern Cape Town to Bluewater camp in the northwest to reduce the xenophobia fear and the bad life in that camps.
The relocation, which ended over the weekend, was carried out by the interior ministry It included the movement of 250 refugees by road.
"We gave priority to vulnerable people in need of protection - including children and families headed by women," says official in the interior ministry.
The fishhoak, which has seen a massive influx of refugees, mainly from Somalia, has experienced uncleaness and life threaten by SoutH Africans- doubled its original capacity after news refugees have started arriving in it.
"The ongoing repatriation of 250 Somali refugees from Fishhoak to Bluewater this year means that Bluewater is now less crowded and able to take in some of the refugees from Fishhoak officials at South African interior ministry said.
One of the relocated Somali refugees Abdullahi Sheikh Farah told Mareeg online that the new camp is healthier and lesscrowded than Bluewater camp.
The new relocation comes as the country's is at ice-cold time that can threaten the refugees' lives those at unoccupied locations.
On last month of May 2008 additional Somalis have lost lives and property in xenophobia attack against the foreigners in South Africa To contact the reporter on this story: A warsame in Moadishu via Mareeg at info@mareeg.com
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