On November 4, Ethiopia’s prime minister ordered military action against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, following an attack on a military base. The escalating conflict is already affecting hundreds of thousands of people, and it runs the risk of destabilizing other parts of the country and the region, with potentially catastrophic humanitarian consequences.
On 7 November, the first wave of people from Ethiopia started to arrive in Sudan. As of 25 November, UNHCR had registered 42,000 arrivals but the number is likely higher, as many have not been registered. Today people are entering Sudan at three locations: the main arrival point is at Hamdayet in Kassala state, in Sudan’s east, which accounts for two-thirds (68 per cent) of arrivals.
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