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Growing need for shelter

    NAIROBI

    In an update on the situation in Eritrea, the umbrella group Action for Churches Together (ACT), has warned of a growing need for shelter due to displacement and the deportation of Eritreans from Ethiopia. Lack of rain in Anseba and the northern Gash-Barka regions had caused crop failure and exposed hundreds of thousands of people to hunger and food insecurity. The
    Eritrean Relief and Refugee Commission (ERREC) has appealed for
    assistance, and due to uncertainty over the war has made contingency plans for the potential displacement of people living close to the border areas. "A minimum of 70,000 people who are immediately at risk of being displaced in the event of an escalation of the fighting are considered for food and
    shelter assistance," ACT said.

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