Sudanese refugees moved from Addis

The UN refugee agency has expressed concern over the forced removal of more than one-thousand Sudanese refugees from Addis Ababa to a camp on Ethiopia's border with Sudan.

A spokesman said many of the refugees had been granted permission to remain in the capital.

He said they were put in to open trucks for the two-and-a-half-day journey to the border, apparently without food.

The Ethiopian news agency said refugees were being relocated to camps outside AddisAbaba because the UN refugee agency had been unable to help them.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service