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GENEVA
The UN and its international partners are working on a response plan for some 2,000,000 refugees who could arrive over the next six months from the conflict-ravaged region of Tigray in Ethiopia, a refugee agency official said on Friday. from the ONU.
Axel Bisschop, UNHCR representative in Sudan, briefed the media in Geneva on the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia.
“Together with all the agencies, we have developed a response plan for about 200,000 people.”
He said protection is based on the current rate of refugees arriving at a place that crosses Ethiopia with Sudan and Eritrea.
“But soon, we will be overwhelmed, in our opinion. We already have 31,000 in a period of less than two weeks,” he said, noting that the current daily average is 4,000 or 5,000.
“Currently, we are at about 31,000, which is already exceeded or already exceeded [….] and now the new planning figure is around 200,000, ”said Bisschop.
When asked to explain the 200,000 figure, the UNHCR official said: “We have discussed this together with all partners here. And the fact is that the period is six months. It is a planning figure.
“So it’s not something to be anticipated,” Bisschop said.
“At the moment, we have about 32,000.”
Over the past two weeks, war has raged between Ethiopia’s federal army and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front in the country’s Tigray region at a high humanitarian cost, including the massacre of civilians at Mai-Kadra in Tigray western, near the border with Sudan.
On November 4, Ethiopia launched what it described as a “law enforcement operation” in Tigray against the TPLF, whose forces stormed the Ethiopian Army Northern Command stationed in Tigray, killing soldiers and looting military assets.
World Health Organization (WHO) director general Tedros Ghebreyesus on Thursday denied allegations by the Ethiopian government that he has served as a diplomat for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
“There have been reports that suggest that I am taking sides in this situation [the armed conflict between Ethiopian Defense Forces and the forces of the TPLF]. This is not true, and I want to say that I am on one side, and that is the side of peace, ”Tedros said on Twitter.
Tedros, who has been serving in his role at WHO since 2017, was a member of the powerful TPLF Executive Committee. He was also Ethiopia’s Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016.
“I am deeply saddened by the reports of victims and a large number of displaced persons and those seeking refuge in neighboring countries,” the WHO chief wrote, calling for “immediate measures to reduce tensions and ensure a peaceful resolution of the dispute.” .
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