战斗于周三爆发。居民称，在边境埃塞俄比亚一侧的城镇部分区域，一天后仍能听到枪声。莫亚莱横跨边境，延伸至肯尼亚领土。
The fighting began on Wednesday. Residents said gunfire could still be heard a day later in parts of the town on the Ethiopian side of the border. Moyale straddles the frontier and extends into Kenyan territory.
据报道，目前尚不清楚是什么引发了埃塞俄比亚南部奥罗米亚地区该城镇部分区域的战斗。当地官员暂时无法联系上以置评。
This is reported by It was not immediately clear what sparked the fighting in parts of the town, in Ethiopia’s southern Oromiya region. Officials there could not immediately be reached for comment.
肯尼亚马萨比特郡专员斯坦利·卡曼德·卡曼德告诉路透社：“我们有数百名来自埃塞俄比亚的人，主要是儿童和妇女。”
“We have hundreds of people from Ethiopia, mainly children and women,” – Stanley Kamande Kamande, commissioner of Kenya’s Marsabit county, told Reuters that many people were staying with relatives and well-wishers in several villages on the Kenyan side of Moyale.
“许多人住在肯尼亚一侧莫亚莱的几个村庄里，投靠亲戚和好心人，”肯尼亚红十字会表示，正在评估有多少人受到影响以及他们需要什么。红十字会官员伊布拉伊·约翰说，目前没有准备好接收流离失所者的营地，但该组织将致力于建设一个。
“Many are staying with relatives and well-wishers in several villages at Moyale side Kenya,” The Kenya Red Cross said it was assessing how many people were affected and what they needed. Red Cross official Ibrae John said no camp was ready to host those displaced, but the organization would work on one.
“没有准备好接收流离失所者的营地，但我们肯定会致力于建设，”伊布拉伊·约翰说。
战斗发生地距离埃塞俄比亚北部提格雷地区的冲突有数百英里，那里的冲突是在政府军与由提格雷人民解放阵线领导的反叛联盟之间进行的。
“No camp is ready to host those displaced but we shall most definitely work on it,” – Ibrae John The fighting occurred hundreds of miles from the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, between government forces and a rebel alliance led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.