NAIROBI (Reuters) – Four former U.S. ambassadors to Ethiopia wrote a joint letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed voicing concern over the conflict in the northern Tigray region, rising ethnic tension in the country and the reported presence of Eritrean troops. The letter, published in Ethiopia’s The Reporter newspaper, echoed points raised in the past […]

Nearly 600 people have been taken to Tunaydbah camp in Sudan’s Gedaref State, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, after nearly two months of ongoing conflict across the border in Ethiopia, between federal Government troops and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic said that it was impossible to gauge the level […]

As fighting raged across the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia in November, a group of soldiers arrived one day at Hitsats, a small hamlet ringed by scrubby hills that was home to a sprawling refugee camp of about 25,000 people. The refugees had come from Eritrea, whose border lies 30 miles away, part of a vast exodus in recent years led by desperate […]