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Worldcrunch Today, Dec. 21: New COVID Strain, Record Relief, Vaccinating Santa Crowds at Londons St Pancras station after new lockdown measures were announced in the UK - Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/ZUMA       2019-12-21 Welcome to Monday, where stocks plummet and borders are blocked after news from Britain about a new faster spreading COVID strain. Mada Masr also takes us to Ethiopias troubled Tigray region and considers the ramifi...

Sudan reports new refugee waves from Ethiopia Format December 20, 2020 -(GADAREF) - The number of Ethiopian refugees who crossed into Sudan fleeing the restive Tigray region has reached near 55,000 people, Sudanese humanitarian authorities said on Sunday. Ethiopian federal army retook control of the Tigray capital Mekelle last November, however, the TPLF fighters continue to clash with the federal army in different locations in the region, despite the official statements about the end of the mi...

War In Ethiopias Tigray Region Casts Long Shadow Over Sudan Many of those that fled the fighting have made their way across the border into Sudan - SVT Korrespondenterna       With a humanitarian crisis looming along the Sudan border, Ethiopian refugees pine for news of those they were forced to leave behind. 2020-12-19 SUDAN-ETHIOPIA BORDER — After seizing the capital of the northern state of Tigray last weekend, Ethiopian P...

Share on Twitter The United Nations announced Thursday a $35.6 million emergency aid package for civilians caught up in fighting in Ethiopias Tigray region. Violence broke out in Tigray in early November when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched military operations targeting Tigrays ruling party. In Ethiopia itself, $25 million will go toward the purchase of medicine and medical gear to help sick or wounded civilians, and to buy food and provide drinking water, the UN said. ...

Sudan: Eastern Border | Ethiopia Situation - Daily New Arrivals Update (As of 15 December 2020) Format Beginning of November 2020, UNHCR has recorded an influx of asylum seekers at border entry points in East Sudan from Ethiopia, after military confrontations in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia. UNHCRs teams at the border areas of the eastern Sudanese states of Kassala and Gedaref are working with the Sudanese Commissioner of Refugees (CoR), local authorities and partners to monitor and r...

Views: Visits 8 Ethiopian refugees who fled fighting in Tigray province are pictured at a reception centre in Sudan’s eastern Gedaref province, on November 17, 2020. (Photo by Ebrahim HAMID / AFP) The first shells landed before dawn, crashing through tin-roofed mud homes and sending Jano Admasi’s neighbours fleeing for the cacti-dotted hills around her village in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. Jano, a soft-spoken woman in her sixties, tried to escape as well, running with her...

Yasuyoshi Chiba | AFP via Getty Images The heat is unrelenting in the middle of a December day in eastern Sudan. Its hard to find any shade in this arid landscape. Its mostly dust and boulders — and, for now at least, it is the temporary home of tens of thousands of Ethiopian refugees who have crossed the border to flee the fighting in their country. Theres not much to make a home. The nearest town, Al Qadarif, is two hours away. No water source exists at the camps, so water is trucked in fro...

Photos by Yasuyoshi Chiba. Video by Peter Gume Among the thousands of people fleeing the five-week-old conflict in Ethiopias Tigray region are a few dozen men, women and children from Eritrea, one of the worlds most authoritarian states. They were already living as refugees in Tigray, which had long been a safe haven for them during years of conflict and repression in Eritrea. But when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmeds government launched a military operation against Tigrays ruling party, th...

UN says Ethiopias conflict has appalling impact on civilians 10 Dec 2020 Topics Fast News Ethiopia is rejecting calls for independent investigations into the deadly fighting in its Tigray region, saying it “doesn’t need a baby-sitter." A newly arrived Ethiopian refugee boy who fled Ethiopias Tigray conflict brings hot meal in a pan to his family at Um Raquba refugee camp in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on December 9, 2020. ...