Special Envoy to Hamdayet, Oum Rakouba and Tunaydbah (Sudan)
They form a strange procession, tired silhouettes but raised fists and banners brazenly stretched forward.
On this winter morning, in the desert plain of Tunaydbah (Sudan), a few thousand refugees defy the squalls sweeping the white tent camp.
Originally from Tigray, this region of northern Ethiopia where a closed-door war has been raging for several months, there are children, women, some old people and also many young men of fighting age.
One of them, dressed in a lemon yellow polo shirt, is perched on the shoulders of a comrade.
He waves towards the sky, with somewhat derisory movements, a rifle carved from a piece of wood.
The crowd growls:
"The Tigray will be freed by his children!"
Or:
"Long live the Tigray People's Liberation Front!"
A yellow star on a red background, the banner of this wounded nation floats in the pale sky.
On November 4, after months of
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