The New York Times published on 13 February 2021 an article titled "In Sudan Border Town, Desperate Ethiopians Find 'Second Mother Country'" by Abdi Latif Dahir.
The remote town of Hamdayet in Sudan's eastern Kassala state initially received 43,000 refugees from the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray Region. The Sudanese in the town are mostly Arabic-speaking traders and livestock herders while the Ethiopian refugees are mostly Amharic or Tigrinya-speaking Christians. People in the Sudanese town warmly welcomed the Ethiopians, one of whom described the Sudanese "as the most generous people in the world."
