Cairo –
Refugees from Sudan’s civil war who have fled to neighboring Ethiopia say they have been forced to move on and take shelter in a forest and along roadsides after repeated attacks by gunmen left their tents riddled with bullet holes.
About 8,000 people have left the Kumer and Awlala refugee camps set up by the United Nations in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region since repeated attacks last month, mainly by bandits, camp representatives said this week.
They had originally fled the fighting that broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has led to extreme hunger in parts of that country and accusations of ethnic cleansing in Darfur.
