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Many Tigray refugees entering Sudan with nothing but their clothes: UNHCR 

Many Tigray refugees entering Sudan with nothing but their clothes: UNHCR 

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Nearly 60,000 people from Ethiopia’s volatile Tigray region have now crossed the border to remote southeastern Sudan, after more than two months of fighting, many with just the clothes on their backs. 

The emergency has created a massive protection challenge for the UN refugee agency in SudanUNHCR, which is doing everything it can to provide what they need, as spokesperson Axel Bisschop tells UN News’s Daniel Johnson. 

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Daniel Johnson, UN News - Geneva
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