Sudan’s premier visits Ethiopia as number of Tigray refugees tops 50,000

Tigrinyan refugees queue for cooked rice and lentils at the Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok arrived in Ethiopia on Sunday amid a growing refugee crisis that has seen more than 50,000 Ethiopians flee conflict in the Tigray region into neighbouring Sudan.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed greeted his Sudanese counterpart at Addis Ababa’s airport, where Mr Hamdok arrived with acting Sudanese Foreign Minister Omar Qamar al-Din and top intelligence and military officials.