Refugees from Ethiopia conflict scratch a living in Sudan

Ten-year-old Samarwat Tkhal fled fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region this month — now she sells food to survive, among tens of thousands of fellow refugees building a new life in neighbouring Sudan. Tkhal, wearing a red T-shirt and yellow trousers, wanders the dusty streets of “Village Eight”, a transit point just across the border into Sudan that has rapidly swelled into the size of a small town. It is the first stop for many of the…