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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abby Ahmed says the army has been ordered to move on the capital of the northern Tigre region in what he's calling the final phase of the offensive.
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Some half a million residents of the capital, Mark Kelly, have been warned to stay indoors.
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The move comes just hours after an ultimatum expired for regional leaders to surrender to the central government.
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The U.
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N is warning it's running low on essential supplies for the nearly one million people who have been displaced by the conflict.
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Our correspondent Mariel Mueller reports.
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We're only 80 kilometers away from the Ethiopian border into the region of Tigray, where heavy fighting still continues.
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This U N camp, called Umrah Cuba camp, once housed refugees who fled Ethiopia's famine in the 19 eighties.
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Now the camp is expected to house several 1000 refugees.
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As the U.
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N refugee agency told us.
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Many more than the original capacity of 6000 people here are desperate, they tell us water, food and shelter are scarce.
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Some of them have to sleep on the ground, are struggling to get enough food or medical aid.
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The new refugees crossing the border to Sudan worry aid groups, a representative told us, were unable to respond to a growing influx.
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Umbra Cuba Camp once housed refugees who fled Ethiopia's famine in the 19 eighties.
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Now some 9000 people have saved themselves once again, but this time it's because of war.
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In this hospital, people wait for hours before receiving treatment like a gorilla.
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She, her baby and her father escaped the war in the degree in town off.
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Um, era E was afraid because the bombs kept falling for three days.
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We just left without money without close.
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It took 10 days to come here and now we're here in Sudan.
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We've been in this camp for three days.
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We don't have any shelter.
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Well again, mind you, Her father has terminal cancer.
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Since they got out, he hasn't received his medication.
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Yeah, the U.
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N refugee agency is bracing for more refugees crossing the border from Ethiopia.
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People need everything from water, food and shelter.
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So at the moment we're capturing for over 9000 people at the hot meal to your partner, and that's not enough.
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And it's Children who are suffering the most.
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It's estimated that half off the refugees are Children.
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Many of them need medical treatment.
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Like five month old Collab.
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He's been coughing and has had diarrhea since days.
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Exactly.
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I can't breastfeed him.
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And here they don't have milk powder And the food the baby needs.
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Outside the hospital, we meet Alum whose house was bombed.
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In whom era?
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The side of reportedly some of the heaviest fighting between Ethiopian forces and the Tigre.
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An army.
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He got shot in the leg.
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I'm alone.
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My mom and my dad were killed by the bombing.
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These clothes are my only ones.
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I wear them for days.
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Nobody helps me.
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I don't have enough water or food here.
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Nobody takes care of me.
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E If more refugees arrive, Alum fears that the situation could get even worse.