Tigrinyan refugees, who fled Ethiopia’s conflict, arrive in convoys from Village 8 near the Lugdi border crossing, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan. – CopyrightNariman El-Mofty/Associated Press
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In a development the United Nations has called “disturbing,” Ethiopia on Friday said it was returning thousands of refugees who ran from camps in its Tigray region as war swept through, putting them on buses back to the border area with Eritrea, the country from which the refugees originally fled.
The news came as the United States said it believes Eritrean troops are active in Ethiopia, something it called a “grave development”. A State Department spokesperson in an email cited credible reports and said “we urge that any such troops be withdrawn immediately”.