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Some refugees are drawing parallels to the mass arrests and deportations of Eritreans during the 1998–2000 war between the two countries, when thousands were forcibly expelled from Ethiopia.
In Ethiopia, claims of human rights abuses associated with mass evictions in Gambella prompted neighboring South Sudan — a nation ravaged by a civil war — to grant group refugee status to Anuak who have fled Ethiopia. Otiri and Omot escaped the violence in Gambella in the summer of 2011 by trekking across the Ethiopian border into South Sudan.
The European Union has responded to the crisis of Ethiopian refugees in Sudan due to the conflict in the Tigray region. EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, visited the border areas in Sudan and Khartoum, signaling the EU's commitment to humanitarian support and Sudan's political transition. [13]
Throughout the feudal era, famines were common in Ethiopia, especially in the north. [17] Local famines were also frequent but also unrecorded. [17] The most infamous was the "Great Ethiopian Famine" which killed approximately one third of Ethiopia's population between 1888 and 1892. [17] [18] In 1958, famine killed 100,000 people. [17]
The United States is resuming food aid to refugees in Ethiopia after assistance was paused earlier this year because donations were being diverted, a senior U.S. Agency for International ...
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed distribution of food to roughly 900,000 refugees across Ethiopia after revamping safeguards and controls, following reports of large-scale theft of ...
Tigrayan refugees in Sudan told multiple news outlets that Tigrayans in Mai Kadra were targeted by either Amhara militias, [8] [10] the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), [7] or both. [6] The killings took place amidst an armed conflict between the TPLF-led regional government and the federal government. The killings began before the ENDF ...
New satellite images of a refugee camp in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region show more than 400 structures have been badly damaged in what a research group believes is the latest “intentional ...