The young coffee seller said she was split from family and friends by an Ethiopian soldier at the Tekeze river, taken down a path, and given a harrowing choice. "He said: `Choose, either I kill you or rape you`," the 25-year-old told Reuters at the Hamdayet refugee camp in Sudan where she had fled from conflict in Ethiopia`s Tigray region. "The soldier ... forced a gun on her and raped her," Limeuh, who was volunteering with the Sudanese Red Crescent, said the woman told him. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed`s government and the military did not immediately respond to questions from Reuters about the reports of rape. Media have been largely banned from Tigray, aid agencies have struggled for access, and communications were down for weeks.

Source: Ethiopian News January 23, 2021 10:18 UTC