Finally, they made it safely to the small Sudanese border town of Hamdayet. So they sat in a sandy alley close to the centre of town, asking passers-by for food and water. And yet the Sudanese and Ethiopian refugees aren’t bound by much beyond geographical contiguity, with plenty of differences that could divide them. He had previously visited Sudan with his mother, a businesswoman, who traded Ethiopian teff, a type of grain, for clothes and shoes. Tension has also risen at the Hamdayet border crossing in the past, with refugees claiming that Ethiopian forces blocked them from crossing into Sudan.

Source: bd News24 February 14, 2021 06:00 UTC