United Nations rushes to provide lifesaving aid to more than 20,000 refugees who have fled violence in Ethiopia’s Benishangul Gumuz region, and urgently calls for additional resources as it grapples with a major funding shortfall . The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday the region had been plagued by violence since December. It hosts more than 70,000 Sudanese and South Sudanese refugees and more than 500,000 internally displaced Ethiopians. Cheshirkov said the UN also registered the arrival of 70 Sudanese refugees, mostly women and children, who fled the camps and returned to Sudan’s Blue Nile state. The message from the UN speeding up aid to 20,000 refugees fleeing violence in Ethiopia appeared first on Al Jazeera.

Source: Ethiopian News February 05, 2022 10:19 UTC