联合国周三援引当地当局消息称，埃塞俄比亚南部敌对武装力量上周爆发冲突，已导致约5万人逃往邻国肯尼亚寻求庇护。
The outbreak of fighting between rival forces in southern Ethiopia last week has led some 50,000 people to seek refuge in neighbouring Kenya, the United Nations said Wednesday, citing local authorities.
联合国周三援引当地当局消息称，埃塞俄比亚南部爆发冲突，自上周冲突爆发以来，已造成约5万人逃过边境进入肯尼亚。
Fighting in southern Ethiopia has caused some 50,000 to flee over the border to Kenya since clashes erupted last week, the United Nations said on Wednesday, citing local authorities.
这一数字较联合国难民署（UNHCR）周二记录的3.6万人大幅跃升，此前埃塞俄比亚南部索马里州和奥罗米亚州军队发生冲突。
The figure represents a sharp jump from the 36,000 recorded on Tuesday by UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, in the wake of clashes between the armies of southern Ethiopia's Somali and Oromia regions.
肯尼亚联合国难民署代表法蒂玛·穆罕默德-科尔表示：“根据当地当局消息，估计多达5万人已进入肯尼亚。”
"According to local authorities, up to an estimated 50,000 people have crossed into Kenya," said Fatima Mohammed-Cole, the UNHCR representative for Kenya.
穆罕默德-科尔警告称，鉴于实地局势，这一数字可能迅速变化，目前仍在记录新的越境人员。
That number could quickly change given the situation on the ground, with fresh crossings being recorded, Mohammed-Cole warned.
据消息人士周六向法新社透露，动荡由10月20日在莫亚莱市升起索马里州区旗引发，该城市由索马里州和奥罗米亚州共同管理。冲突已造成数人死亡。穆罕默德-科尔表示，逃离者中许多是妇女和儿童。
The unrest was sparked on October 20 after a Somali regional flag was hoisted in Moyale, a city jointly administered between Somali and Oromia. Several people have died in clashes, sources told AFP on Saturday. Many of those who had fled were women and children, Mohammed-Cole said.
她补充道：“虽然一些人留在亲戚和接待社区，但其他人已在学校和教堂等临时地点寻求庇护。”
"While some are staying with relatives and host communities, others have sought shelter in temporary locations like schools and churches," she added.
联合国难民署已向该地区派遣紧急小组，并正与肯尼亚政府以及红十字会等其他人道主义组织合作，向流离失所者提供援助。
UNHCR has sent an emergency team to the region and is working with the Kenyan government, alongside other humanitarian organisations such as the Red Cross, to provide aid to those displaced.
埃塞俄比亚是非洲人口第二多的国家，人口约1.3亿，其广袤领土上存在多处武装冲突。其各州边境地区的划界可追溯至1991年，常成为冲突根源。
Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country at some 130 million people, is the scene of various armed conflicts across its vast territory. The borderlands of its various regions, whose tracing dates back to 1991, are often the source of clashes.
与邻国厄立特里亚的外交分歧同样引发人们对这对关系紧张的非洲之角邻国再次爆发冲突的担忧。埃塞俄比亚军队近几周已向厄立特里亚边境推进。
Diplomatic disagreements with neighbouring Eritrea have likewise led to fears of another conflict between the fractious Horn of Africa neighbours. Ethiopian forces have pushed towards the Eritrean border in recent weeks.
这些担忧在周三于莫斯科举行的俄罗斯—非洲峰会期间加剧，当时埃塞俄比亚总理阿比·艾哈迈德宣布，埃塞俄比亚已收到12架俄罗斯战斗机。
Those fears were heightened during the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on Wednesday after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced Ethiopia received 12 Russian fighter jets.
“埃塞俄比亚还将收到四套‘S-400防空系统’，”艾哈迈德补充说。
"Ethiopia will also receive four "S-400 air defence system batteries", Ahmed added.
俄罗斯外长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫表示，“我们有兴趣看到埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚恢复正常关系”。
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said "we are interested in Ethiopia and Eritrea normalising their relations".
多年来，埃塞俄比亚政府一直与该国人口最多的奥罗米亚和阿姆哈拉地区的反叛组织陷入冲突。
For several years, the Ethiopian government has been locked in conflict with rebel movements in the Oromia and Amhara regions, the country's most populous.
在数月紧张局势之后，北部提格雷地区的战斗也再次爆发，该地区此前已是2020年至2022年毁灭性战争的发生地。
After months of tensions, fighting has also broken out again in the northern Tigray region, already the scene of a devastating war from 2020 to 2022.