Angelia Jolie visits refugees in Tunisia

Apr 05, 2011

Angelia Jolie visits refugees in Tunisia

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Angelina Jolie is far from the Hollywood scene today, doing her UNHCR work.

The actress is visiting Somalia refugees in a camp in Tunisia. She is hoping to encourage continued funding and support from the international community to further assist the hundreds of thousands of people who have crossed into Tunisia to escape the violence in Libya.

More than 400,000 people have escaped the violence in Libya in the last month, arriving in surrounding countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Niger, Algeria, Chad and Sudan, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Tunisia has received more than half of the outflow from Libya.

The international community has done well to reinforce Tunisia's relief effort, said Jolie. But with 2,000 people still crossing each day, she said funding cannot be allowed to dry up.

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