Africa-Press-Ethiopia<\/p>\n
SATELLITE images were released at the weekend showing over 400 structures in an refugee camp in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region were torched on Saturday.<\/p>\n
DX Open Network says the attack, on the Shimelba camp for Eritrean refugees, was the result of an \u201cintentional attack\u201d by fighters, though it could not confirm the identity of the attackers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is likely that the fire events of January 16 are yet another episode in a series of military incursions on the camp as reported by [the UN refugee agency],\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
It said the attackers probably went door-to-door setting the buildings alight.<\/p>\n
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has slammed \u201creliable reports and first-hand accounts\u201d of abuses including the forced return of refugees to Eritrea.<\/p>\n
Eritrean troops are believed to have entered the area, where fighting continues following the Ethiopian government\u2019s attack on the regional government led by the Tigrayan People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF). Thousands of people have been killed and an estimated two million displaced.<\/p>\n
But Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel rejected Mr Grandi\u2019s accusations, tweeting: \u201cUNHCR seems to indulge, yet again, in another bout of gratuitous & irresponsible smear campaigns against Eritrea.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eritrea invaded Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region in 1998, resulting in two years of fighting. A peace deal was not signed until 2018, when the TPLF, which had dominated the Ethiopian government since 1991, had lost power to current Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The Eritrean authorities have always viewed the now fugitive TPLF as an enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa-Press-Ethiopia SATELLITE images were released at the weekend showing over 400 structures in an refugee camp in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region were torched on Saturday. DX Open Network says the attack, on the Shimelba camp for Eritrean refugees, was the result of an \u201cintentional attack\u201d by fighters, though it could not confirm the identity of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[264,241,255],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abiy-ahmed","tag-africa-press-ethiopia","tag-ethiopian-refugees"],"yoast_head":"\n