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Ethiopian families fleeing fighting describe hunger, rape in Amhara

Some of the people who were wounded during the fighting between the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces in Kobo town, receive treatment at the Dessie Referral Hospital in Dessie Town, Amhara region, Ethiopia, October 9, 2021. [Reuters]

The pictures on her phone are all that Ethiopian mother Habtam Akele has left of her three-year-old daughter Saba. The girl died of malnutrition last month before the family was able to flee south, deeper into Ethiopia's Amhara region.

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