The View from the Ground: Our Tigray crisis response in Sudan
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Our Sudan team shares an update from Gadaref State, Sudan.
In November 2020, an escalating conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia began forcing tens of thousands of families from their homes. Many sought refuge in neighbouring Sudan, where we recently re-opened a country programme to provide relief to families feeling the lingering effects of conflict. Our team immediately began coordinating with other humanitarian actors and sought access to the areas where the refugees were staying. We’ve since been to the refugee camps and are preparing to provide support to families displaced by this conflict.
IOM Flash Appeal Nothern Ethiopia Crisis - November 2020 - April 2021 I Published on 14 January 2021
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SITUATION OVERVIEW
In early November 2020, a military confrontation began in Ethiopia’s Tigray region between the Ethiopian Federal Defence and forces linked to the Tigray Regional Security Forces (TRSF) leading the Government of Ethiopia to declare a State of Emergency. Since then, a large influx of refugees from Ethiopia’s Tigray region have fled across the border to Eastern Sudan.
As of 13 January 2021, the Government of Sudan’s Commission for Refugees (COR) has registered over 58,044 refugee arrivals. With a tense and volatile humanitarian situation unfolding in Ethiopia and continued daily flows into Sudan, refugee arrivals are reported through main border points in Hamdayet, Wad Alhelw locality in Kassala State, Algazira, Yagolo and Yasbisher sites in Wad Al Mahi locality in Blue Nile State, and Lugdi and Abderafi, Faqsha locality in Gedaref State. Points of Ent
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UNFPA Sudan Response to the Ethiopian Refugees Situation report #4, December 30, 2020
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Updates and key figures:
As a result of crisis escalation in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, refugees have been arriving into Sudan since November 9, 2020.
The arrivals are entering through three locations along the Ethiopian borders: Hamdayet (Kassala State), Ludgi and Abderafi (Gedarif State) and Wad Al Mahi (Blue Nile State).
UNHCR and COR have registered over 54,411 Ethiopian refugees in Kassala, Gedaref, and Blue Nile states.
As of 29 December 2020, 20,572 refugees relocated from Hamdayet and Abdrafi border crossings to Um raquaba refugee camp.
UNFPA Sudan estimates that amongst the refugees there are +13,500 Women of Reproductive Age, of which +1200 are pregnant, with +130 live births expected in the coming month.
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