Tens of thousands flee Ethiopia's Oromia-Somali clashes into Kenya

This primary school in Moyale in Kenya has just become the new home for thousands of people who over the last week have fled heavy fighting just across the border in Moyale, the adjoining half of the town that's in Ethiopia. For about the last week there's been heavy fighting between the forces of the Oromia regional authorities and the Somali regional authorities. It's a new iteration of an old conflict, but this time around, it's forced tens of thousands of people to flee for their lives. When the fighting started, we were forced to stay in the house without any food. I spent two days without leaving. At night, at four o'clock, we ran here when there was a lull in the fighting. Butikin Mohamed and Abdi Taha told us, like everyone else here, they're hungry. We need food, we need shelter, we need clothes. She's my wife, she's pregnant, but still now she's not getting food. And these people, many babies need medical treatment. The Red Cross is responding, starting with firewood to cook. For many here, this isn't the first time. The conflicts erupted eight times since the 1990s when Ethiopia redrew its internal map along ethnic lines. Competition between herding communities for pasture and water turned into a fight between regional governments over territory. And in Moyale, the boundary was never settled. So once again, people from one of Ethiopia's poorest areas have fled to one of Kenya's. This is the first meal that some of these people say they've eaten in days. Meanwhile, there's no sign of peace at home. The Ethiopian government troops haven't stepped in to stop the fighting. Ethiopia's army is facing rebellions in at least three different regions. It's been fighting in Tigray, but it's also facing rising tensions with its neighbour Eritrea. So these people have been forced from their homes at a time when the world's richest countries are cutting aid budgets, so they don't know if or when they'll get to go home. And they don't know how much more support they'll get if they stay here. Malcolm Webb, Al Jazeera, Moyale, Kenya.