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An estimated 40,000 to 50,000 fighters are currently in the northern Tigray region as the conflict escalates.
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19 Nov 2020
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An estimated 30,000 Tigrayans have fled to Sudan with the UN warning a humanitarian disaster is unfolding.
![An Ethiopian woman who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, prepares a meal in Hamdait village on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in eastern Kassala state, Sudan November 17, 2020 [Leni Kinzli/WFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-18T100525Z_260013992_RC2M5K91RRT3_RTRMADP_3_ETHIOPIA-CONFLICT-SUDAN.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Gov’t denies ethnic profiling, but Tigrayans say they have experienced discrimination and feel pessimistic about future.
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The conflict in northern Ethiopia has already lasted two weeks, and it threatens to destabilise the Horn of Africa.
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