Thousands Flee into Sudan After Border Clashes
Thousands of people have fled across the border into Sudan to escape deadly violence in the frontier region between Ethiopia and its northern Tigray area, aid agencies said. The influx adds to the strain on a country already gripped by its own devastating civil war. Those arriving described attacks and chaos in the areas they had fled.
Sudan is an unlikely refuge, itself torn apart by a war between rival generals that has displaced millions and created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. That people are fleeing into it underlines the severity of the violence on the Ethiopian side, where tensions around Tigray have simmered since a brutal conflict there. Aid groups warned they lacked the resources to cope with fresh arrivals in an already overwhelmed region. The Horn of Africa remains a tangle of overlapping conflicts and displacement. Watch whether the border violence spreads or subsides.