7,000 seek Sudan asylum after fleeing western Ethiopia violence
UNHCR says most of the asylum seekers who fled ethnic violence in Benishangul-Gumuz region have been living among Sudanese host communities.
![The UN refugee agency said the situation escalted rapidly in the past three months [Ashraf Shazly/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/000_8YC27Q.jpg?resize=770%2C513)
23 Feb 2021
At least 7,000 people who fled escalating ethnic violence in western Ethiopia have sought asylum in neighbouring Sudan, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has said, amid heightened tensions between the two neighbouring countries.