“Tens of thousands of refugees are living in makeshift homes in Sudan’s Um Rakouba refugee camp. But a lack of testing facilities and zero social distancing are the main concerns that could cause a potential outbreak of COVID-19 in the camp.”
Category: Humanitarian Crisis
I Don’t Know Where My Children Are’: Ethiopian Refugees Recount Horrors of War
“The soldiers came in the middle of the day and started to kill young men,” said Giray Seyfu, 24, who worked in agricultural irrigation in Mai Kadra, a town in northern Tigray.
“They stormed the town, hacked people with knives, shot bullets and beat people to death with sticks. I must have seen about 130 people dead. We had to run,” Seyfu said.
Daily arrivals of Tigray refugees to Sudan more than doubles
The United Nations says new fighting in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray is forcing more civilians to flee to neighbouring Sudan.
I saw people dying on the road’: Tigray’s traumatised war refugees
“I saw many dead people being eaten by dogs,” Tela said from a refugee camp just over the border in Sudan, his voice breaking. “I saw many people dying on the road. Many difficult things, difficult to express, difficult to imagine.”
HRW: Interview – Uncovering Crimes Committed in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region
Laetitia Bader, Human Rights Watch’s Horn of Africa Director, recently returned from a research mission in Sudan to interview refugees who fled the fighting that broke out in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in early November 2020. For several weeks, federal government forces, the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), and their allies clashed with forces and militia allied to Tigray’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), in response to what Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed described as attacks by TPLF forces on federal military bases and forces in the region. The conflict has taken a heavy toll on the region’s civilian population. Here, Bader describes her impressions and some of Human Rights Watch’s initial findings.
Monok: More than two million children in Ethiopia’s Tigray region cut off from humanitarian assistance
About 2.3 million children are struggling to obtain essential humanitarian aid, including treatment for malnutrition, vital vaccines, emergency medication and water and sanitation, the children’s rights organisation, the United Nations child welfare agency, UNICEF, said on Tuesday.
The crisis also worries almost 100.000 people Eritrean refugees in Tigray. UNICEF called for “urgent, sustained, unconditional and impartial humanitarian access” to the affected families and called on the Federal Government to make the freedom of movement possible for civilians who wish to seek protection elsewhere possible.
HUMANITARIAN SOURCES: ETHIOPIAN ARMY BLOCKING PEOPLE FLEEING TO SUDAN
Humanitarian sources are telling CNN that the Ethiopian army are trying to block its citizens from fleeing the conflict.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy declares victory in Tigray conflict | DW News
“We jumped over dead bodies. Our neighbors were dead, but we couldn’t bury them so we just kept running. Abiy’s actions are terrible.”
In Sudan camp, a Tigray farmer once displaced by famine now shelters from war
“This is inhumane, slaughtering people, stealing all their belongings, I feel the world has betrayed Tigray because people are doing nothing while people are being killed,” said Berhan.
Mekelle hospitals struggling to care for wounded: ICRC
“We don’t want to go back, because we saw the administration of Abiy Ahmed. He kills us, Tigrinya speakers with the help of the Eritrean government,” Bereket Gebremichael said, referring to the official local language spoken in the Tigray region.
“We don’t want to be killed, so we don’t want to go back until Abiy Ahmed hands over to the people” of Tigray region, he added.