Ethiopia: UNHCR moves Eritrean refugees away from border zone

Thousands of Eritrean refugees are being moved away from the contested border with Ethiopia, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Monday. Some 2,400 refugees who had been living in makeshift camps in Ethiopia close to the disputed 1,000-km border began moving last week "further into Ethiopian territory for their own safety", Mahary Maasho, the UNHCR spokesman in Addis Ababa told IRIN.