6,080 Sudanese refugees including children, women battle hunger, thirst in Ethiopian forest

No fewer than 6,080 Sudanese  including children, and women are faced with daunting challenges in Ethiopian forest.

The embattled refugees are suffering from hunger, thirst and other basic needs, Refugees In Libya disclosed, calling for help for the people.

Refugees In Libya wrote: “Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia. “Until death we will leave Ethiopia

The forests are more merciful than the hell of that camp.” These are the words of Sudanese refugee families in Ethiopia in the Olala Forest, which is located in the Amhara region, after they were forcibly displaced there due to the ongoing security unrest near the Olala camp of the United Nations. They thought about leaving to the city of Gondar, which is about 200 kilometers away from them on foot, but the security authorities prevented them from continuing, and they were detained in a forest three kilometers from Olala camp on May 1.

“They are  6,080 people, including children, women, the elderly, and people with special needs. They are all inside the forest and facing the harshest and most difficult days of their lives, where the simplest things are not available (no food, no water, no medicine, no tents to protect them from the rain). In order to get a little water, some of them go to a remote place where there is a creek with water that is not suitable for drinking, but it is boiled with firewood and drunk. Due to the current scarcity of food, they have been on an open hunger strike since May 23.”

Refugees In Libya noted that the humanitarian situation is catastrophic and “currently, people heading into the fall season fear that they will be infected with a cholera epidemic due to the pollution of the area, the spread of flies and insects, and the unhealthy water.”

This message, it said  is addressed to every humanitarian person, every Sudanese citizen, and every influential person who has the ability and ability to convey the meaning of these neglected people, in order to meet their legitimate demands to live like any human being in this world. “They do not ask for much. They were displaced from the scourge of war in Sudan, and here they are facing the worst, and in a state foreign and from an external force.

“Their voice rose as they called on human rights organizations to intervene to help them, their voice rose as they called on the international community and the United Nations to look at them, their voice rose as they called on their people to support them and convey their meaning to the world.”