{"id":48859,"date":"2026-10-23T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48859"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:17:12","slug":"kenya-red-cross-rushes-aid-to-ethiopians-who-crossed-border-fleeing-violence","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-red-cross-rushes-aid-to-ethiopians-who-crossed-border-fleeing-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Red Cross rushes aid to Ethiopians who crossed border fleeing violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Kenya Red Cross said it was sending humanitarian supplies to families who fled into Kenya \u200bafter fighting erupted in the Ethiopian border town of \u200cMoyale this week and that its response would initially reach 1 000 households.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hundreds of Ethiopians, mainly women, children and young people, crossed into \u200bKenya after the fighting began on Wednesday, the Kenya \u200bRed Cross and local government officials have said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Gunfire \u2060could still be heard on the Ethiopian side of \u200bthe border on Thursday, according to local residents.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya&#8217;s Moyale town, \u200bwhich sits opposite an Ethiopian settlement of the same name, remained calm, but police were on high alert after reporting several incidents involving \u200bstray bullets.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Kenya Red Cross said it had begun \u200bsetting up a temporary shelter and distributing tents, blankets, sleeping mats, \u200cjerrycans, \u2060kitchen sets and fortified porridge flour.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Many have arrived with very few belongings and urgently need shelter, food, water and health care,&#8221; the organisation said in a statement late on \u200bThursday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A police report \u200bseen by \u2060Reuters said a stray bullet had lodged in the neck of a local woman in \u200bKenya&#8217;s Moyale town. She was admitted to \u200ba private \u2060hospital where the bullet was removed and is now in a stable condition, the report said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Later on Friday, local \u2060government officials \u200bon the Kenyan side will \u200bmeet to coordinate humanitarian assistance to displaced households.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48814,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-48859","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Fighting erupted in the Ethiopian border town","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48861,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48859\/revisions\/48861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}