{"id":445531,"date":"2023-05-10T13:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=445531"},"modified":"2023-05-10T13:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:03:40","slug":"16687-people-fleeing-fighting-in-sudan-cross-to-ethiopia-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/445531","title":{"rendered":"16,687 people fleeing fighting in Sudan cross to Ethiopia: UN\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">16,687 people fleeing fighting in Sudan have crossed to Ethiopia, the UN\u2019s relief agency, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) disclosed on Tuesday evening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its update report on the impact of Sudan\u2019s crisis in Ethiopia, UNOCHA disclosed more than 16,600 people mostly Ethiopian nationals have arrived through the Metema border crossing in Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara region since April 21, fleeing fighting in Sudan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIncrease in arrivals at the Metema border, picked up on Monday after two consecutive days of low numbers. Of the 832 people that arrived on that day, 494 were Ethiopian and 388 foreign nationals,\u201d the UNOCHA report disclosed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs of May 8, a total of 16,687 arrivals since April 21, out of whom 55 percent are male and 45 percent are female, including 11 percent infants and children under five have been reported,\u201d the UNOCHA report further disclosed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Thursday, an official at the Ethiopia Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) disclosed, at least 1,469 Sudanese who fled recent fighting in their home country have registered as refugees in Ethiopia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since mid-April major cities in Sudan have turned into battle fields as fighting rages on between Sudan\u2019s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), the country\u2019s national army.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sudan has been suffering a political crisis since Sudanese army chief, Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan declared martial law in October 2021 and dissolved the previous joint military-civilian run government.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16,687 people fleeing fighting in Sudan have crossed to Ethiopia, the UN\u2019s relief agency, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) disclosed on Tuesday evening.\u00a0 In its update report on the impact of Sudan\u2019s crisis in Ethiopia, UNOCHA disclosed more than 16,600 people mostly Ethiopian nationals have arrived through the Metema [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":445530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-445531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/download-1-2.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1RTZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445532,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445531\/revisions\/445532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}