Heavy fighting kills 20 in region bordering Tigray
Buses carrying Ethiopian refugees who fled the fighting in the Tigray depart from the Hamdayet area of Sudan's eastern Kassala state to a camp, on November 22, 2020. PHOTO | AFP
The sustained clashes in Afar highlight the potential for Ethiopia's eight-month-old conflict to expand well beyond Tigray, where thousands of people have already been killed and hundreds of thousands pushed into famine, according to the United Nations.
