UN: Number of Ethiopian refugees in Sudan camps reducing

Ethiopian refugees

Ethiopian refugees gather to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the Tigray People's Liberation Front at Um Raquba refugee camp in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on February 19, 2021. PHOTO | AFP

The number of Ethiopian refugees at camps in Sudan is dropping, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has confirmed, without stating their whereabouts. 

UNHCR issued a statement on the matter on Wednesday, two days after the Ethiopian government alleged that some Ethiopian refugee fighters from Sudan had entered the Amhara and Benshangul-Gumz regions where Ethiopia's massive mega-dam is being built.