Politics
Satellite Images Show Ethiopia Carnage as Conflict Continues
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United Nations facility, school, clinic and homes burned down
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UN refugee agency has had no access to the two camps
A time-lapse shows the WFP building being destroyed at Shimelba camp.
Source: Planet Labs Inc.
Satellite images show the destruction of United Nations’ facilities, a health-care unit, a high school and houses at two camps sheltering Eritrean refugees in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, belying government claims that the conflict in the dissident region is largely over.
The eight Planet Labs Inc images are of Hitsats and the Shimelba camps. The camps hosted about 25,000 and 8,000 refugees respectively before a conflict broke out in the region two months ago, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
