7,000 flee western Ethiopia fighting - UN
Tuesday February 23 2021
Ethiopian refugees gather to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the Tigray People s Liberation Front at Um Raquba refugee camp in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on February 19, 2021. In remote eastern Sudan, refugee activists are keeping the flame burning for the former rebels who dominated Ethiopian politics before being ousted from their regional stronghold of Tigray last year. PHOTO/AFP.
Summary
The displacement is not related to the unrest in Ethiopia s northern Tigray region, which has pushed more than 61,000 to flee also into Sudan in recent months.
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Around 7,000 people have fled rapidly-escalating communal violence in western Ethiopia, seeking safety in neighbouring Sudan, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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‘Ethiopia kills dozens allegedly behind massacre’
World
December 25, 2020
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s military killed 42 people allegedly among those responsible for massacring more than 100 civilians in a troubled western part of the country, local officials said on Thursday.
The federal troops also seized firearms and arrows during the operation, the government of the Benishangul-Gumuz region said, after gunmen waged the brutal pre-dawn assault on Wednesday in which dozens were also injured. The Ethiopia Defence Force has destroyed 42 anti-peace forces who attacked civilians yesterday in the Metekel zone of Benishangul-Gumuz, the regional government said in a statement. Contests over land and resources in Benishangul-Gumuz have spurred violence between ethnic groups, and Wednesday’s massacre was just the latest gruesome atrocity in the region in recent months.