Sudanese Refugees Trapped in Ethiopian Forest Call for ‘Immediate Evacuation’

Addis Ababa — ‘We cannot sleep because of the threat of snakes, scorpions, and heavy rain.’

A large group of Sudanese refugees who have been stranded in a forest in a conflict-affected region of neighbouring Ethiopia for the past two months are facing “catastrophic” living conditions and continued attacks by local militiamen and bandits.

After escaping the war in Sudan, several thousand refugees had been living in camps allocated to them in the Amhara region by Ethiopian authorities. But the…