“Concerns are developing over the hour,” UN refugee spokesman Babar Baloch told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday. one month ago. We are also alarmed by the unconfirmed reports of attacks, kidnappings and forced recruitment in refugee camps.
Wednesday marks one month since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that fighting broke out in the Tigray region between federal and regional forces, and each government now sees the other as illegitimate by a dispute over the conduct of elections and the pandemic.
Communication and shipping links to the Tigray region have been cut off from another 6 million people, and the United Nations and others have advocated for much-needed food, medicine and other supplies.
Abiy, last year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, rejected the concept of discussion with Tigray’s regional leaders, who are on the run but say they continue to fight even after Abiy declared victory this weekend in the fatal conflict.
The Ethiopian government has said it will create and administer a “humanitarian corridor” for aid delivery, but the UN has unhindered and unhindered access.
The UN said that about 2 million people in Tigray now need help, twice as much as before the fighting, and that about 1 million more people are displaced, adding more than 45,000 Ethiopians who have fled to Sudan as refugees.
Eritrea’s 96,000 refugees are in a precarious situation, are in Eithopia camps near the border with their homeland, Eritrea, from which they fled, and there have been reports that some have been attacked or abducted. it is true that such movements would “constitute primary violations of foreign norms”.
Eritrea has remained almost silent, while Tigray’s leaders accuse her of joining the confrontation at the request of Ethiopia, which Abiy’s government has denied.
“For about two decades, Ethiopia has been a hospitable country for Eritrean refugees, but now we are concerned that they will be caught up in the conflict,” Baloch said. eritrean refugees and to provide aid workers with access to others who now desperately need it.
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