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East Africa: International Rescue Committee Warns of Looming Humanitarian Crisis
Addis Standard, 11 November 2020
In a statement sent to Addis Standard, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said it is "extremely concerned about the humanitarian implications of escalating violence in the… Read more »
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East Africa: More Ethiopian Refugees Flee to Sudan
Dabanga, 11 November 2020
More than 6,000 Ethiopian refugees crossed the border to El Gedaref, eastern Sudan, yesterday, fleeing the conflict in the Tigray region. Read more »
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East Africa: Thousands Flee to Sudan As Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict Escalates
DW, 11 November 2020
As tensions remain high between Ethiopia's federal government and local leaders in the northern region of Tigray, thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes and seek… Read more »
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East Africa: Tigray Conflict Sees Hundreds Dead, Thousands Flee to Sudan
The New Humanitarian, 10 November 2020
'This is a pointless and avoidable civil war that is likely to morph into a geopolitical nightmare.' Read more »
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Ethiopia: Q & A - Escalating Tensions in Ethiopia Add to Tenuous Refugee Setting
IPS, 10 November 2020
Already reeling from conflict, extreme weather events and growing displacement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, escalating tensions in Ethiopia's Tigray region have placed the country… Read more »
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Sudan: Sudan Calls for 'Wisdom and Restraint' in Tigray Conflict As Refugees Reach El Gedaref
Dabanga, 10 November 2020
Sudan has called on all warring parties in Ethiopia "to appeal to wisdom and restraint" to find a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict in the Tigray Region. The first influx… Read more »
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East Africa: Ethiopia Conflict Triggers Regional Refugee Problem
CAJ News, 10 November 2020
Sudan is on high alert for refugees from neighbouring Ethiopia where the government has declared a state of emergency in the northernmost Tigray region. Read more »
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East Africa: Ethiopia-Tigray Dispute a Threat to Regional Stability
Nation, 9 November 2020
Ethiopia has been on the ascendancy since the end of the civil war that brought Meles Zenawi to power in 1991. Read more »
Thousands Flee to Sudan as Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict Escalates
Ethiopia's transition to multi-party democracy has been in danger for months, but the eruption of conflict in the northern region of Tigray threatens a humanitarian disaster that could derail the process altogether and sow instability across the Horn of Africa, writes Samuel Getachew for the New Humanitarian. Mass casualties have been reported in different parts of Tigray, while thousands of Ethiopians have fled to neighbouring Sudan since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military intervention against the region's powerful ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
Map of the regions of Ethiopia, showing the boundary between the Tigray region (in dark pink) and neighbouring countries.
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Calling the situation in the troubled Tigray region an internal matter, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed resisted pressure from the African Union and international community to ... Read more »
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According to government sources, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is aiming for a "decisive response" after gathering intelligence that the local Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) ... Read more »
