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Eyewitnesses who have fled Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, is under fierce bombardment. CNN reports a communications blackout in the region has made reporting on claims from both sides difficult. About half a million residents live in Mekelle. UNICEF says roughly half of them are children. More than 43,000 Ethiopian refugees have crossed into neighboring Sudan since fighting began on November 4th. The number of people internally displaced inside Tigray is growing daily. According to the UNHCR, the pre-existing refugee camps in the region only have food supplies to last three days.
There are now a record 65.3 million displaced people in the world, the UNHCR says in a report released on World Refugee Day.
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi says, "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan, following the beginning of the conflict." He also says that the number of people now internally displaced in the conflict torn nation is now at two million. SOUNDBITE
The number of refugees who have fled Ukraine since the Russian army invaded on February 24 has exceeded two million, says Paul Dillon, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at a press conference of UN agencies in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
Quito, Sep 9 (EFE) .- Ecuador will offer a portfolio of almost 30,000 million dollars to attract foreign investment in a project to revamp the economy and reach a target of two million jobs within the current legislative session according to President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso. (Camera: EFE)SHOT LIST: INTERVIEW WITH ECUADOR PRESIDENT GUILLERMO LASSO (IN SPANISH)TRANSLATIONS:We are going to work on an ambitious project that will summon about 30,000 million dollars of foreign investment in the next four years of Government to achieve economic growth of more than five percent in the last two years of my government and investment projects that generate employment until we reach the goal of two million jobs during the four years of government.