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104 Bangladeshi migrant workers are stranded in the conflict-ravaged Tigris region of northern Ethiopia. Authorities at the Bangladeshi clothing company DBL Group have called on the government to evacuate them to safer locations. MA Jabbar, managing director (MD) of the company, said that the bomb had been placed in the factory facilities of DBL Industries PLC. Workers need help to get out of the conflict zone.
MA Jabbar said: ‘Our staff are still safe. We urge the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to remove them from the conflict zone. DBL authorities are concerned that food is running out. That is why we have requested that the trapped workers be evacuated to safety immediately.
Bangladeshi Ambassador to Ethiopia. Nazrul Islam said: ‘The embassy is monitoring the situation regularly. We are giving the necessary instructions to the embassy officials to remove the stranded workers. Initially, we are trying to relocate them to safer areas.
Al Jazeera reports that hundreds of people have already been killed in escalating clashes in Ethiopia’s disputed Tigris region.
Meanwhile, the Bangladeshi embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said it was considering rescuing stranded Bangladeshis and was cooperating with international organizations, including the United Nations.
The conflict in northern Ethiopia, Africa’s second-largest country bordering Eritrea and Sudan, is expected to escalate into a full-blown civil war. The number of people killed in ethnic unrest has been on the rise since 2016. Meanwhile, the United Nations has warned that aid agencies cannot store the food, medical supplies and emergency supplies that are being provided to people in the region. As a result, there is a fear of creating a refugee crisis here.
The DBL factory is known to have been installed on 75 hectares of land in Ethiopia. Swedish retailer H&M brought DBL to Ethiopia for the first time. Workers are available there with lower wages than in Bangladesh. There is an opportunity to export garments from Ethiopia to the United States duty free, an opportunity that is currently not available for export from Bangladesh.
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