Not come on.

As he waits to be bussed to a refugee camp in Sudan, Karume plays a song for a handful of fellow Ethiopian passengers having escaped fighting in Tigre region.

The Karar, a traditional stringed instrument, is one of his few possessions.

It's kind of special, because if I ever feel sad, I just used the instrument to express how I feel.

Yeah, sometimes when someone doesn't understand you, you can use music to talk to them.

The mechanical engineering student who dreams one day of becoming a musician or a singer crossed a border river at Sudan's Hamdi.

It was being transferred to Mark Uber on Tuesday after tea grades.

Conflict broke out last month.

He says his home was looted, but the robbers did not take the instrument and a friend went back to rescue it.

Possessions are not the only thing.

The 20 year old has lost weight.

My whole family has been separated.

I don't know where they are now s.

Ever since the war started in the beginning of November, we were separated from each other and there's no network in Ethiopia s so that's why I can't find them E communications remain largely cut.

Access to Tigre is tightly restricted, making it difficult to verify reports of ongoing clashes.

Despite Prime Minister Abiomed declaring a military operation over, he's urged the more than 45,000 people who fled to Sudan to return for Karume.

His time in one of Sudan's refugee camps has just begun, and it's not clear how long it will last.