(17 July 2011, NAIROBI) - The first in a series of UNHCR emergency airlift flights to bring aid to uprooted Somalis in remote refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia began Sunday with the arrival in Nairobi of a giant cargo jet carrying 100 tonnes of tents.
The UNHCR-chartered Boeing 747 arrived in Nairobi mid-morning and its cargo was immediately off-loaded for transport by road convoy early in the week to the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp complex near the Kenya-Somalia border.
Sunday’s flight, bringing 2,300 family tents from a UNHCR stockpile in Kuwait, was the first of five scheduled for Nairobi on alternate days this week.
The next is set for Tuesday. The remaining flights, however, will originate in Islamabad, Pakistan, bringing some 6,600 tents from UNHCR’s regional stockpiles there.
Another airlift of UNHCR aid supplies to Ethiopia is also set to begin as early as Monday. The airlift, which will deliver up to of 20,000 tents, will originate from UNHCR’s regional stockpile in Dubai and will deliver its cargo to Addis Ababa for onward delivery.
Source: UNHCR
The UNHCR-chartered Boeing 747 arrived in Nairobi mid-morning and its cargo was immediately off-loaded for transport by road convoy early in the week to the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp complex near the Kenya-Somalia border.
Sunday’s flight, bringing 2,300 family tents from a UNHCR stockpile in Kuwait, was the first of five scheduled for Nairobi on alternate days this week.
The next is set for Tuesday. The remaining flights, however, will originate in Islamabad, Pakistan, bringing some 6,600 tents from UNHCR’s regional stockpiles there.
Another airlift of UNHCR aid supplies to Ethiopia is also set to begin as early as Monday. The airlift, which will deliver up to of 20,000 tents, will originate from UNHCR’s regional stockpile in Dubai and will deliver its cargo to Addis Ababa for onward delivery.
Source: UNHCR
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