January 12 - 2021 EL FASHAGA / EL GEDAREF
Ethiopian soldier (US Navy)
Five women and a child were killed in an attack by Ethiopian gunmen on a village in eastern Sudan’s El Gedaref yesterday. In another attack by Ethiopian armed forces, aimed at Sudanese armed forces, civilians were killed too.
A listener told Radio Dabanga from El Fashaga that Ethiopian militiamen (known as
shifta in the region) launched a new attack on El Fashaga El Sughra yesterday afternoon.
“Five women and a child from the village of Leya in El Gureisha locality were killed”, the witness said. He added that the Sudanese army repelled the attack.