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Thousands of Refugees from Ethiopia's Tigray Region Fleeing Violence

Salem Solomon

   The border town of Hamdayat, Sudan, is now home to thousands of
   refugees from Ethiopia's Tigray region fleeing violence. Among the
   estimated 8,000 who have arrived in recent days are the parents of
   seven-month-old twins born prematurely, laying on a bed in a makeshift
   shelter. The family was forced to leave the hospital in Tigray where
   they were getting medical care.

   "They were in incubators but when the city was bombed, we ran away and
   came here," their father Burhano Qobrfay told Reuters at the village
   located in eastern Kassala state. "Their mother doesn't have much milk.
   We are using flour and mixing it to feed them. That is not recommended
   by doctors. Our children are dying right before our eyes."

   The more than week-long conflict in Ethiopia between the federal
   government and the regional ruling party, the Tigrayan People's
   Liberation Front (TPLF) has forced more than 20,000 people to flee to
   Sudan, according to the [1]U.N. refugee agency.

References

   1. https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/news/briefing/2012/6/4fc899949/20000-sudanese-refugees-converge-south-sudan-border.html

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