source: Addis Standard; Reuters; BBC News
actor1: Military Forces of Sudan (2019-)
actor2: Civilians (Ethiopia)
location: Mashra Wad Arud
notes: Around 7 November 2020 (between 6 - 9 November), Ethiopian officials accused Sudanese forces of attacking settlements inhabited by Amhara farmers at unspecified locations in disputed areas east of the Atbara river in Gedaref state [coded to Mashra Wad Arud]. SAF are accused of looting and burning farms, and killing an unspecified number of Amhara (unknown fatalities coded as 3). 400 to 500 households are reported to have been displaced from early November to late December (after a Sudanese military offensive began in mid-December). Satellite imagery shows fields having been torched in areas around Wad Arud and Wad Kholy.