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Tuesday 17 November 2020

UN: Over 25,300 fleeing Ethiopia fighting have reached Sudan

By SAMY MAGDY gees, appealed Monday
Associated Press for assistance to help the
CAIRO (AP) — Ethiopia’s Sudanese government re-
growing conflict has re- spond to the situation on its
sulted in more than 25,300 borders.
refugees fleeing the Tigray “Resources are urgently
region into Sudan, the U.N. needed to meet the ba-
refugee agency said Mon- sic needs of the refugees,”
day, as fighting spilled be- Grandi said in a tweet.
yond Ethiopia’s borders The influx of refugees adds
and threatened to inflame to Sudan’s economic and
the Horn of Africa region. security burdens. The tran-
More than 5,000 refugees sitional government has
arrived in Sudan’s border already been struggling
provinces of Kassala and under the weight of de-
al-Qadarif on Sunday, the cades of U.S. sanctions
highest single-day number and mismanagement un-
of arrivals since the start of der former ruler Omar al-
the conflict in Tigray earlier Bashir. The former dictator,
this month, the UNHCR said. who came to power in an
Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Islamist-backed military
Prize-winning Prime Minister coup in 1989, was ousted in
Abiy Ahmed announced 2019.Eastern Sudan, which
on Nov. 4 a military at- Ethiopian refugees gather n Qadarif region, easter Sudan, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. borders Ethiopia’s Tigray
tack against the regional Associated Press region, was the scene of
government in Tigray in re- bouts of tribals violence
sponse to an alleged offen- Setit in Sudan, divides the Activist Abdel-Rahman by U.N. agencies and the in recent months that
sive by Tigray forces. eastern Sudanese areas of Awad Abdel-Rahman in international community claimed dozens of lives.
Most of the refugees arriv- Lugdi and Hamdayet. al-Qadarif said there were was “slow” compared to Fleeing Ethiopians were be-
ing in Sudan are children Authorities in Kassala and “many, many” Ethiopians the pace of refugees arriv- ing moved to the Um Rak-
and women who walked al-Qadarif were already unregistered with the U.N. ing in the province. ouba refugee camp but it
long distances on rugged overwhelmed and urged refugee agency. He said The UNHCR said it was work- suffers from food shortages,
terrain to reach safety. U.N. agencies to speed they arrived with almost ing with Sudanese authori- said Abdel-Baset Wadaa,
They arrive exhausted, hun- up assistance to deal with nothing and that a “huge ties to “mobilize resources head of the camp. “We
gry and thirsty, having had a rapidly deteriorating hu- amount of assistance” is to provide life-saving assis- don’t have a problem with
to cross a river by boat or in manitarian situation. Of- needed urgently to deal tance services to the new water, but we have a lack
some cases by swimming. ficials said last week they with the growing numbers. arrivals.” of food and difficulty pro-
The river, known as the expected up to 200,000 Al-Qadarif Gov. Suliman Ali Filippo Grandi, the U.N. viding meals. We need sup-
Tekeze in Ethiopia and the refugees to enter Sudan. said Monday the response high commissioner for refu- port,” he said.q

Afghans welcome report on Australian troops’ alleged crimes

By TAMEEM AKHGAR crimes by its special forces nal cases against some a redacted version of the tal, were forced to accept
Associated Press in Afghanistan following a soldiers who were in the report on the investigation the insurgents’ presence in
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) four-year investigation. Special Air Service Regi- next week. the area under duress.
— An Afghan rights watch- After the report’s publica- ment and Commando Abdul Manan is a 58-year- “We were not armed to
dog and a tribal leader tion, a new investigative Regiment in Afghanistan old tribal leader in southern stop them,” he said. His ac-
are cautiously welcoming agency headed by a re- between 2005 and 2016, Uruzgan province where count could not be inde-
an Australian government tired judge or senior crimi- Australian officials said. Australian forces were pendently verified.
report into suspected war nal lawyer will build crimi- Afghanistan’s Indepen- based for years. He said Classified documents al-
dent Human Rights Com- he’s looking forward to the leging Australian troops
mission said it provided report’s release. killed unarmed men and
information on at least “Our demand is that those children in Afghanistan be-
10 cases of alleged war who have done wrong to came the basis for a 2017
crimes to Australian inves- us should be put on trial. report by the Australian
tigators. Justice must be served,” Broadcasting Corp., which
“We hope this report is pub- he said. “We cannot try detailed growing unease
lished as soon as possible, them ourselves … we are in the Australian Defense
so that the Afghan people in Afghanistan and they Force leadership about
— especially the victims — are in Australia.” the culture of the special
can know what really hap- Abdul Manan, who like forces.
pened,” said Zabiullah Far- many Afghans goes by Two ABC journalists had
hang, a spokesman for the one name, said he was de- until recently faced poten-
organization. tained at least six times by tial prison sentences for us-
He said details on the Australian forces for alleg- ing the leaked documents,
cases were not being re- edly helping the Taliban. but prosecutors decided
Abdul Manan, a 58-year-old tribal leader, poses with his leased in order to protect He claims the residents of that charging the journal-
children after an interview in southern Uruzgan province of the alleged victims’ con- his village, located around ists would not be in the
Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. fidentiality and security. 12 kilometers (7 miles) from public interest. Defense
Associated Press Australia will make public Uruzgan’s provincial capi- Force Chief Gen. q