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Militiamen fighting alongside federal forces in Ethiopia
More than 6,000 Ethiopians came to Sudan to escape fighting in the Tigray region, according to Sudanese officials.
And Sudanese authorities expect some 200,000 Ethiopians to flee to him in the coming days, as fighting continues.
As a refugee camp is being prepared to house people fleeing the fighting, aid agencies have warned of an impending humanitarian crisis.
And Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed decided to carry out a military operation in the Tigray region against local leaders who had defied the central government.
Hundreds of people were reported to have died during the fighting, raising fears of a possible civil war.
Sudan’s official news agency “SUNA”, citing sources from the Sudan Refugee Commission, said that more than 200,000 people from Ethiopia are expected to arrive in Gedaref state in the coming days.
The agency also indicated that the state of Kassala has begun to put in place the necessary arrangements to receive the wave of refugee flows.
Earlier, Al-Sir Khaled, a UNHCR official in Kassala state, told Reuters that the number was increasing throughout the day.
He added that “these people need shelter, medical treatment and food, and there is a great shortage”, warning that “if the conflict continues, we expect an increase in the flow of refugees.”
Ethiopian authorities announced that they would not hold peace talks with the local government of the region, unless all military equipment was destroyed, federal officials were released and leaders of the region were arrested.
The Tigrayans say the Abe government persecutes them, discriminates against them and acts arbitrarily to postpone national elections.
The country is feared to plunge into civil war due to intense hostility between the Tigrayans and Abiy Ahmed, who are descended from the Oromo tribes, Ethiopia’s largest.
