Photo Credit: Refugees International
04/24/2008

The number of new arrivals from Eritrea reaches up to 600 a month, so a new camp is being readied to receive residents in coming months. But camp life is no solution. One refugee told Refugees International, "My parents were born in Eritrea, but my parents had lived in Ethiopia for 40 years. At age 21 I was deported to Eritrea during the border conflict though I had never been there. Now I am a nation-less person. Eritrea does not consider me as Eritrean Ethiopia does not consider me as Ethiopian. I consider myself as a prisoner in this camp."

Here, Eritrean children who are less aware of the larger political context of their current lives and its impact on their futures, play and pose at sunrise.