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Sudan Humanitarian Groups: Refugees Could Reach 200,000

Nabeel Biajo

   WASHINGTON - Humanitarian organizations are ramping up efforts to
   assist refugees who continue streaming into Sudan to escape fighting in
   Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.

   Jense Hesemann, emergency coordinator for the U.N. refugee agency in
   Sudan, said thousands of new Ethiopian refugees are arriving in Sudan
   every day.

   "The emergency refugee registration teams at UNHCR and the government's
   commission for refugees here in Sudan by now have registered over
   40,000 new arrivals from Ethiopian since the 7th of November this
   year," Hesemann told VOA's South Sudan in Focus.

   The refugees enter Sudan through the Hamdayet border point in Kassala
   state, the Lugdi border point in Gadaref state and a new location
   further south at the Aderafi border point where about 700 Ethiopian
   refugees crossed into Sudan's Blue Nile state over the weekend.

   The number of Ethiopian refugees entering Sudan could soon reach
   200,000 if fighting between Ethiopian federal government troops and
   Tigray regional forces continues, said Hesemann.

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