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‘Full-scale’ humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ethiopia – U.N.

‘Full-scale’ humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ethiopia – U.N.

EMMA FARGE A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Ethiopia, the United Nations refugee agency has warned, with more than 27,000 people now having fled heavy fighting to Sudan. The pace of the exodus, some 4,000 a day, may also indicate huge uprooting of people within the Tigray region, U.N. agencies said, adding that teams on the ground were overwhelmed. "People are coming out of Ethiopia really scared, afraid, with stories saying they have been fleeing heavy fighting and there's no sign of the fighting stopping," Babar Baloch, spokesman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a Geneva…
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