PRAYER NEED
Fighting in Ethiopia’s border town of Moyale kills at least nine as thousands flee into Kenya
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What happened
Fighting broke out on 21 October in Moyale, a town on Ethiopia’s border with Kenya, and has killed at least nine people over several days, a local hospital official said; about 30 wounded people, many hurt by heavy weapons, were admitted to hospital. At least hundreds of people have fled across the border into Kenya’s Marsabit County, mainly women and children, Kenyan officials and the Kenya Red Cross said; one estimate puts the number at about 2,500, and the Red Cross says the exact number is not yet known. Many are staying with relatives in villages on the Kenyan side, and the Kenya Red Cross has begun an emergency response. Local media link the clashes to a regional flag dispute; the cause has not been independently established.
Families in Moyale are mourning people killed in days of fighting, and hundreds of women and children have fled across the border into Kenya with little but what they could carry.
People affected
- Lives lost
- At least 9
Pray for
- Families of those who were killed
- The wounded, and those caring for them
- Women and children who have fled into Kenya, and the families sheltering them
- An end to the fighting in Moyale
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