The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that five people were killed in an attack launched on February 5 on an Eritrean refugee camp in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, which is witnessing battles. UNHCR has collected testimonies from people who fled the Bahrali refugee camp near the border with Tigray region, stating that “armed men entered the camp on February 3 and killed at least five refugees, while several women were kidnapped.”
The Tigray region has been witnessing an armed conflict for 14 months between the Ethiopian federal government and the former local authorities of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which ruled Ethiopia for nearly 30 years until Abi Ahmed came to power in 2018. The conflict between the Ethiopian government forces and the Tigray rebels since November 2020 Thousands of deaths, the displacement of a large number of the population, and it was accompanied by violations, and pushed hundreds of thousands, according to the United Nations, to the brink of starvation.
