a new day
away from home but for these refugees
it's a big relief to have made it to
sudan
most of them used this border crossing
point in ham diet
it's been the busiest route with at
least a thousand people passing here
daily but now things have changed
we spotted ethiopian troops stationed on
the other side of the border
they've been discouraging people from
fleeing the country we were told
our requests for comment from the
authorities went unanswered
more than 40 000 refugees are now in
sudan
many families have been separated but at
the umrakuba camp
a father and his 11 year old daughter
are luckily reunited
i was with my grandmother when i started
hearing gunshots
when they intensified asked her to flee
with me but she said no
she's too old to run so i fled alone
i had to spend a night in the bush i was
frightened
i had no extra clothes and no money but
i was able to cross the border and then
i asked someone to call my father
for the older people here this brings
back bad memories
tiglai is 75 he is becoming a refugee in
sudan for the second time
in his life he was a teenager when he
first fled
now he wants a resolution to the current
conflict
but thinks it won't come easy
they will not agree on anything unless
the world intervenes
but if they are left alone they will not
agree
now there is war and death things cannot
be solved that easily
if it happened before the death there
might have been
a chance but now only god knows
these people hope this situation is
temporary
they want to go back home and continue
with their lives
the federal government promised a short
offensive
but there are fears that the conflict
could persist
and potentially destabilize the whole of
africa region
[Music]
this is a song for peace it encapsulates
the hopes of many
here they've lost touch with those they
left behind
their lives are in limbo as ethiopia's
current and former rulers
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[Music]
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