Eritrean forces should leave Tigray immediately, says US

Tigrayan refugees who fled Ethiopia’s conflict prepare to cook their dinners in front of their temporary shelters at the Umm Rakouba camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan. Picture: Nariman El-Mofty/AP

All soldiers from Eritrea should leave Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region “immediately”, the United States has said.

An email from the State Department to the Associated Press cited “credible reports of looting, sexual violence, assaults in refugee camps and other human rights abuses”.