Tag Archives: Africa

The first witness account is Ethiopians fleeing the conflict

Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Heavy gunfire erupted in the Ethiopian border town and a police officer, Philemon, immediately started running. Now, shaken and frightened, he paused when asked questions about his wife and two young children, and and ages, “I don’t know where my family is now,” he said, not …

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Kenya’s president has saved a century-old fig tree from a highway

The presidential decree described the four-story building as “the son of Kenya’s cultural and ecological heritage”. The fig tree is considered sacred in Kenya’s most populous ethnic group, Kikuyu. Environmentalists were campaigning against the planned destruction of trees planted on the Wyky Way west of the city, where engineers are …

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As the violence escalated, thousands fled Ethiopia

Filippo Grandi, the U.S. High Commissioner for Refugees, said on Wednesday that more than 20,000,000 refugees from the Ethiopian region of Tigris had entered Sudan, escaping fighting between the government and regional forces. He said there were many displaced people in Tigre and 96 96,000 Eritrean refugees. In a tweet. …

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Sudan is fighting an Ethiopian war of about 200,000

Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Up to 200,000 refugees fleeing deadly conflict could enter Sudan In the northern Tigris region of Ethiopia, officials say, while the first details are coming out of a large number of cut-off civilians under increasing stress. Already at least 6,000 people have crossed the border. Long …

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