The humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region is increasingly becoming alarming after over 20,000 Eritrean refugees got missing when their two camps were destroyed.
However, the United Nations (UN) has raised the alarm about the “grave” situation of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia, saying some 20,000 people are missing after two of their camps were destroyed in the country’s war-torn Tigray region.
Filippo Grandi, the UN’s high commissioner for refugees, raised the alarm on Monday after reports, accompanied by satellite images in January, showed the destruction of two refugee camps sheltering thousands of Eritreans in the region.
The refugees fled from the Hitsats and Shimelba shelters after the camps were destroyed in fighting that erupted in Tigray in November last year.