The United Nations has expressed alarm over the reported killing of more than 200 displaced people, including 100 children, in Ethiopia’s Afar region.
In a statement, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund’s Executive Director Henrietta Fore said, “The intensification of fighting in Afar and other areas neighbouring Tigray is disastrous for children.”
Fore said, “It follows months of armed conflict across Tigray that have placed some 400,000 people, including at least 160,000 children, in famine-like conditions.”
The UNICEF chief said that the recent fighting displaced more than 100,000 people, adding to the two million people already uprooted from their homes.
The attack on displaced families sheltering at a health facility and a school took place on Thursday.
