NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least 5 Eritreans had been killed when gunmen attacked a refugee camp in Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar region throughout preventing between rebellious Tigrayan and Afar forces in the world on Feb. 3, the U.N. refugee company (UNHCR) mentioned on Friday.
Refugees advised UNHCR that armed males attacked the camp, kidnapped a number of girls, looted property and occupied their houses, inflicting hundreds to flee.
“UNHCR is working with the Ethiopian authorities and companions to offer emergency assist to hundreds of Eritrean refugees who fled Barahle refugee camp and its environs in the Afar region after preventing engulfed the world,” the company mentioned in a press release.
It didn’t say who carried out the assault.
Reuters couldn’t attain the spokespersons for the Tigrayan forces or the Afar regional forces for remark.
The battle in northern Ethiopia has pitted the rulers of the northern region of Tigray in opposition to the Ethiopian central authorities and its allies – together with forces from the areas of Amhara and Afar, and troops from the neighbouring nation of Eritrea.
The 15-month-outdated conflict has killed hundreds of civilians and displaced thousands and thousands. About 150,000 Eritrean refugees dwell in Ethiopia. They have been killed, raped and imprisoned by belligerents on either side of the battle and reduce off from assist for months at a time.
Fighting between Tigrayan and Afar forces has displaced a minimum of 300,000 individuals since December and blocked meals deliveries into neighbouring Tigray, the place thousands and thousands of individuals are depending on assist.
Afar is of strategic significance as a result of its territory incorporates the primary street and railway linking Addis Ababa, landlocked Ethiopia’s capital, with the ocean port of Djibouti.
Source: Reuters
