Ethiopia Fighting Leaves Sudan Hosting Refugees It Can’t Support
- Refugees in Sudan speak of heavy warfare and missing relatives
- UN says over 40,000 people crossed border to escape conflict
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Fears that a civil war raging in neighboring Ethiopia’s northern Tigray Region will reverberate across eastern Africa are playing out in Sudan, which is contending with a massive influx of refugees who’ve fled the fighting.
More than 40,000 people have streamed across the border from Tigray into eastern Sudan since Nov. 7, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Sudan itself is seeking to rebuild its shattered economy after conflict in the Darfur region and the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir last year, and lacks the resources to meet their basic needs.