Mass arrests of Tigrayans in Ethiopia 'disturbing': U.N.
3 years, 1 month ago

Mass arrests of Tigrayans in Ethiopia 'disturbing': U.N.

The Hindu  

At least 1,000 people have been detained in Ethiopia over the past week, the United Nations said on November 16. The surge in arrests has occurred since the government introduced a state of emergency on November 2 amid fears that the Tigray People's Liberation Front fighters would march on the capital. Ten local U.N. staff, as well as 34 drivers subcontracted by the U.N., were still being held, U.N. spokeswoman Liz Throssell said. Children dying of starvation in hospitals The conflict, which broke out just over a year ago between Ethiopian federal troops and forces loyal to the TPLF, the ruling party of Tigray, is also behind soaring malnutrition in the Tigray region.

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Ethiopia’s Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children
9 months, 1 week ago

Ethiopia’s Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children

LA Times  

Ethiopian women gather at a community meeting in Mai Mekden, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on Feb. 26. The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia’s Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister’s recent death in childbirth. Another …

Ethiopia’s Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Ethiopia’s Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children

Associated Press  

NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia — The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia’s Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister’s recent death in childbirth. Another with 1-year-old twins said she needed sachets of baby food to keep “my babies alive.” Tigray …

Millions urgently need food in Ethiopia's Tigray region despite the resumption of aid deliveries
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Millions urgently need food in Ethiopia's Tigray region despite the resumption of aid deliveries

The Independent  

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Dashed hopes and limited aid trouble Tigrayans a year after Ethiopia truce
1 year, 1 month ago

Dashed hopes and limited aid trouble Tigrayans a year after Ethiopia truce

Al Jazeera  

Many Tigrayans say they can’t return home despite the ceasefire because forces allied with the federal government still occupy parts of the region. Life had been upended in Tigray, the northernmost region of Ethiopia, when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent federal troops and allied fighters from the neighbouring Amhara region and Eritrea there in November 2020. “I have fears that …

Researchers have verified 1,329 hunger deaths in Ethiopia’s Tigray region since the cease-fire there
1 year, 2 months ago

Researchers have verified 1,329 hunger deaths in Ethiopia’s Tigray region since the cease-fire there

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Researchers say they have verified 1,329 deaths from hunger in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region since a cease-fire ended a two-year conflict there in November. Tigray in total has 88 subdistricts and 643 displacement camps, so the number of hunger deaths across the region is almost certainly far higher. The study’s findings are described in a document seen …

UN experts detail extensive war crimes amid Tigray conflict
2 years, 3 months ago

UN experts detail extensive war crimes amid Tigray conflict

Associated Press  

GENEVA — U.N.-backed investigators said Thursday they have turned up evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Ethiopian government forces, Tigray forces and Eritrea’s military — including rape, murder and pillage — over the nearly two-year war centering on Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The Commission of Inquiry on Ethiopia, which is working under a mandate from the U.N.'s …

UN experts detail extensive war crimes amid Tigray conflict
2 years, 3 months ago

UN experts detail extensive war crimes amid Tigray conflict

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy U.N.-backed investigators said Thursday they …

Ethiopia’s Tigray forces announce release of thousands of POWs
2 years, 7 months ago

Ethiopia’s Tigray forces announce release of thousands of POWs

Al Jazeera  

The Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front says 4,208 prisoners of war, including 401 women, to be released in amnesty. The Tigray rebel forces fighting Ethiopia’s federal army have said they will release 4,000 prisoners of war as part of an amnesty. Ethiopia’s civil war erupted in November 2020 when the central government sent troops in to topple the Tigray region’s governing …

UN: ‘Extreme lack of food’ for many in Ethiopia’s Tigray
2 years, 10 months ago

UN: ‘Extreme lack of food’ for many in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — More than a third of the people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region “are suffering an extreme lack of food,” the United Nations World Food Program said in a new assessment of a region under a months-long government blockade. The government in part has blamed problems with aid delivery on insecurity it says is caused by Tigray forces, …

Almost 40% of Tigrayans suffer ‘extreme lack of food’, WFP warns
2 years, 10 months ago

Almost 40% of Tigrayans suffer ‘extreme lack of food’, WFP warns

Al Jazeera  

UN agency sounds alarm about a record nine million people in need of food aid across all three conflict-hit regions of northern Ethiopia. Almost 40 percent of people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are suffering “an extreme lack of food” following 15 months of fighting, the World Food Programme has said, also sounding the alarm about rising hunger in neighbouring …

Many in Ethiopia’s Tigray are suffering from an ‘extreme lack of food,’ U.N. says
2 years, 10 months ago

Many in Ethiopia’s Tigray are suffering from an ‘extreme lack of food,’ U.N. says

LA Times  

An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of yellow split peas to be allocated to waiting families in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. More than one-third of the people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region “are suffering an extreme lack of food,” the United Nations World Food Program said in a new assessment of the region, which has been under a …

Ethiopia grants amnesty to high-profile political detainees
2 years, 11 months ago

Ethiopia grants amnesty to high-profile political detainees

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government on Friday announced an amnesty for some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including opposition figure Jawar Mohammed and senior Tigray party officials, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke of reconciliation for Orthodox Christmas. “Ethiopia will make any sacrifices to this end.” It was the most dramatic move yet by the government after the …

Ethiopia announces pardons for high-profile political prisoners
2 years, 11 months ago

Ethiopia announces pardons for high-profile political prisoners

Al Jazeera  

Gov’t says it will release several leading TPLF members and opposition leaders from the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups. The Ethiopian government has announced it would pardon and release some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including opposition figure Jawar Mohammed and senior Tigray party officials. Ethiopia’s state broadcaster, EBC, named both Jawar and Eskinder Nega, who were detained …

Report: Ethiopia detains many Tigrayans deported from Gulf
2 years, 11 months ago

Report: Ethiopia detains many Tigrayans deported from Gulf

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Officials in Ethiopia have arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared thousands of ethnic Tigrayans who recently were deported from Saudi Arabia, a new Human Rights Watch report says as the country’s deadly Tigray conflict continues. “Tigrayan migrants who have experienced horrific abuse in Saudi custody are being locked up in detention facilities upon returning to Ethiopia,” said Nadia …

‘I cannot escape': New abuses alleged in Ethiopia’s Tigray
3 years ago

‘I cannot escape': New abuses alleged in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — New witness accounts allege that thousands of ethnic Tigrayans have been forcibly expelled, detained or killed in one of the most inaccessible areas of Ethiopia’s yearlong war in the latest wave of abuses carried out with machetes, guns and knives. Following a report by The Associated Press early last month citing people who fled, Thursday’s joint statement …

Rights groups report wave of abuses against Tigrayans in Ethiopia
3 years ago

Rights groups report wave of abuses against Tigrayans in Ethiopia

Al Jazeera  

Amnesty and HRW report a surge in abuse by Amhara security forces and militias in western Tigray. Armed forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region have stepped up killings, mass detentions and expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in neighbouring western Tigray, according to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Amnesty and HRW said they interviewed 31 people in western Tigray by phone in …

Ethiopia’s detentions of Tigrayans snare US, UK citizens
3 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia’s detentions of Tigrayans snare US, UK citizens

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — American and British citizens have been swept up in Ethiopia’s mass detentions of ethnic Tigrayans under a new state of emergency in the country’s escalating war, The Associated Press has found. Ethiopia’s government says it is detaining people suspected of supporting the forces from the Tigray region who are approaching Addis Ababa following a year-long war with …

Ethiopia gov’t outlines terms for possible Tigray ceasefire talks
3 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia gov’t outlines terms for possible Tigray ceasefire talks

Al Jazeera  

The Ethiopian government has set out conditions for possible ceasefire talks with leaders of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, following days of international diplomatic efforts aimed at halting intensifying hostilities. TPLF spokesman Getachew Reda has previously said that pulling out from Amhara and Afar before talks begin is “an absolute non-starter”. Tigray’s biggest hospital, Ayder Referral Hospital in the capital, …

UN says Ethiopia detains some 70 drivers who deliver aid
3 years, 1 month ago

UN says Ethiopia detains some 70 drivers who deliver aid

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopian authorities have arrested and detained some 70 aid-delivering truck drivers contracted to the United Nations and other groups in the past week, the U.N. said Wednesday, beginning when the government declared a state of emergency amid the country’s escalating war and growing famine. It is the government’s latest slap at the world body after the recent …

UN says Ethiopia detained 72 drivers working for WFP
3 years, 1 month ago

UN says Ethiopia detained 72 drivers working for WFP

Al Jazeera  

Ethiopian Human Rights Commission says ‘worried’ about mass arrests of Tigrayans, but gov’t denies ethnic profiling. “We are advocating with the government to ensure their safety and the full protection of their legal and human rights.” The government last week announced a six-month nationwide emergency amid rising fears that Tigrayan fighters and allied Oromo Liberation Army rebels could advance on …

Ethiopia detains about 70 drivers who deliver aid as war escalates, the U.N. says
3 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia detains about 70 drivers who deliver aid as war escalates, the U.N. says

NPR  

Ethiopia detains about 70 drivers who deliver aid as war escalates, the U.N. says NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations says Ethiopian authorities have arrested and detained some 70 truck drivers contracted to the U.N. and other aid groups in the past week since the government declared a state of emergency amid the country's escalating war. Wednesday's statement said the …

Ethiopia to expel UN officials amid fears of Tigray famine
3 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia to expel UN officials amid fears of Tigray famine

CNN  

Nairobi, Kenya CNN — Ethiopia is expelling seven senior United Nations officials, just days after the UN’s aid chief warned the war-torn northern Tigray region was descending into famine due to the government’s blockade of aid deliveries. We’re deeply concerned that this action continues a pattern by the Ethiopian government of obstructing the delivery of food, medicine and other lifesaving …

Starvation worsens as Ethiopia blockades target Tigray region | See Pics
3 years, 3 months ago

Starvation worsens as Ethiopia blockades target Tigray region | See Pics

India Today  

In parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, forced starvation is the latest chapter in a conflict where ethnic Tigrayans have been massacred, gang raped and expelled. Now internal documents and witness accounts reveal the first starvation deaths since Ethiopia’s government in June imposed what the UN calls “a de facto humanitarian aid blockade.” Scroll down to see photos: 1 Dying of …

Over 120 killed in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, officials say
3 years, 3 months ago

Over 120 killed in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, officials say

Al Jazeera  

Tigrayan forces reject allegations by local officials in Amhara region they killed scores of villagers earlier this month. Doctors and local officials have said more than 120 civilians were massacred in Ethiopia’s Amhara region earlier this month, but forces from neighbouring Tigray rejected allegations they were responsible. He was quoted by Reuters as saying the killings were during the Tigrayan …

Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis ‘set to worsen dramatically’: UN
3 years, 3 months ago

Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis ‘set to worsen dramatically’: UN

Al Jazeera  

Ten months since the start of Ethiopia’s Tigray war, the United Nations has warned that the humanitarian situation in the country’s northernmost region is set to “worsen dramatically”. “The region remains under a de facto humanitarian aid blockade, where access to bring life-saving humanitarian relief continues to be extremely restricted,” Leaity added, noting that no trucks had been able to …

Ethiopia govt summons 'all capable' citizens to fight in Tigray war
3 years, 4 months ago

Ethiopia govt summons 'all capable' citizens to fight in Tigray war

India Today  

Ethiopia’s government on Tuesday summoned all capable citizens to war, urging them to join the country’s military to stop resurgent forces from the embattled Tigray region “once and for all.” The call to arms is an ominous sign that all of Ethiopia’s 110 million people are being drawn into a conflict that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel Peace Prize …

Ethiopia: UN running out of food in Tigray region as 400,000 people face famine
3 years, 4 months ago

Ethiopia: UN running out of food in Tigray region as 400,000 people face famine

CNN  

CNN — The UN World Food Programme said it expected to run out of food in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray on Friday, and that hundreds of thousands of people in the area were on the brink of famine. They told CNN in a statement that 100 trucks need to arrive every day in order to address the “vast …

‘I came here to fight': Rare footage of Ethiopia’s Tigray
3 years, 5 months ago

‘I came here to fight': Rare footage of Ethiopia’s Tigray

Associated Press  

MEKELE, Ethiopia — The 16-year-old girl hoped to go to war. The Tigray leaders have rejected a unilateral cease-fire that Ethiopia’s government announced as its soldiers retreated from Mekele, and they have vowed to chase “enemies” out of the rest of the Tigray region. Only on Monday, days after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told the U.N. secretary-general that Tigray …

Tigray: Over 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s conflict-ravaged Tigray region are experiencing famine conditions.
3 years, 6 months ago

Tigray: Over 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s conflict-ravaged Tigray region are experiencing famine conditions.

CNN  

CNN — Over 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s conflict-ravaged Tigray region are experiencing dire hunger, finds a new report by the United Nations and other aid groups. As of May 2021, a total of 5.5 million people in Tigray and the neighbouring zones of Amhara and Afar are facing “high levels of acute food insecurity” with 353,000 facing catastrophic levels. Alex …

Over 90 percent of people in war-hit Tigray need food aid
3 years, 6 months ago

Over 90 percent of people in war-hit Tigray need food aid

Al Jazeera  

UN’s World Food Programme says hunger levels are increasing in the northern Ethiopian region as it appeals for $203m to scale up the response. A total of 5.2 million people in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region, or 91 percent of its population, need emergency food aid, the United Nations has warned. “We are deeply concerned at the number of people we …

Ethiopia: UN confirms military blocking aid in Tigray following CNN investigation
3 years, 7 months ago

Ethiopia: UN confirms military blocking aid in Tigray following CNN investigation

CNN  

CNN — The United Nations has confirmed that military forces are impeding humanitarian access to parts of Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region, after an exclusive CNN investigation revealed that Eritrean troops were coordinating with Ethiopian forces to cut off critical aid routes. A CNN team traveling through Tigray’s central zone witnessed Eritrean soldiers, some disguising themselves in old Ethiopian military uniforms, …

Tigray could face famine without increased access to region, US aid official says
3 years, 7 months ago

Tigray could face famine without increased access to region, US aid official says

CNN  

CNN — As the humanitarian crisis continues in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the US Agency for International Development is warning that the area could face famine if aid organizations are not granted unfettered access to the millions in urgent need of assistance. Emily Dakin, a top USAID official working on the ground in Tigray, told CNN this week that it …

‘Clean out our insides': Ethiopia detains Tigrayans amid war
3 years, 7 months ago

‘Clean out our insides': Ethiopia detains Tigrayans amid war

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia has swept up thousands of ethnic Tigrayans into detention centers across the country on accusations that they are traitors, often holding them for months and without charges, the AP has found. Ethiopia’s government is “only after the top leadership” of Tigray’s former rulers, the minister for public diplomacy at the country’s embassy in Britain, Mekonnen Amare, …

Ethiopia’s Tigray: Men forced to rape family members, UN reports
3 years, 9 months ago

Ethiopia’s Tigray: Men forced to rape family members, UN reports

Al Jazeera  

At least 516 rape cases reported by five medical facilities in Mekelle, Adigrat, Wukro, Shire and Axum, UN official says. More than 500 rape cases were reported to five clinics in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the United Nations said on Thursday, warning because of stigma and a lack of health services the actual numbers were likely to be much higher. “Women …

UN: Ethiopian, Eritrean troops behind possible ‘war crimes’
3 years, 9 months ago

UN: Ethiopian, Eritrean troops behind possible ‘war crimes’

Al Jazeera  

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said multiple parties to the conflict are possible perpetrators of sexual violence and killings. The UN rights chief says that her office has corroborated grave violations that could amount to “war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, including by Eritrean troops. The UN high commissioner for human rights went on to …

‘Emaciated’ survivors hint at worse in Ethiopia’s Tigray
3 years, 10 months ago

‘Emaciated’ survivors hint at worse in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — “Many, many severe cases of malnutrition” are being reported in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, Red Cross officials said Wednesday, as 80% of Tigray’s 6 million people are unreachable in the fourth month of fighting and “emaciated” women and children fill displacement camps. Reports of people already starving to death might just be a handful, but “after a …

Ethiopia: Aid agencies say four staff killed in Tigray fighting
4 years ago

Ethiopia: Aid agencies say four staff killed in Tigray fighting

Al Jazeera  

DRC reported the deaths of three security guards, IRC said one staff member was killed. Four staff members of two international aid agencies were killed during last month’s fighting in Ethiopia’s troubled northern Tigray region. When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered troops into Tigray on November 4, following alleged attacks by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front forces, aid workers were …

Ethiopia’s forces shoot at, detain UN staffers in Tigray
4 years ago

Ethiopia’s forces shoot at, detain UN staffers in Tigray

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s security forces shot at and detained United Nations staffers as they tried to reach part of the embattled Tigray region, a senior official said Tuesday, and he blamed the U.N. staffers for trying to reach areas where “they were not supposed to go.” The shooting occurred amid soaring frustration among humanitarian officials as desperately needed aid …

Ethiopia’s conflict stokes humanitarian and virus crisis
4 years ago

Ethiopia’s conflict stokes humanitarian and virus crisis

Associated Press  

HAMDAYET, Sudan — Ethiopia’s month-long war in its northern Tigray region has severely hampered efforts to fight one of Africa’s worst coronavirus outbreaks, as the fighting has displaced almost 1 million people and strained local humanitarian services to the breaking point. “The people that are fleeing from conflict and violence are also fleeing for their lives,” U.N. refugee chief Filippo …

People go hungry in Ethiopia’s Tigray as conflict marches on
4 years, 1 month ago

People go hungry in Ethiopia’s Tigray as conflict marches on

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — People are going hungry in Ethiopia’s rebellious northern Tigray region as roads are blocked, airports are closed and the federal government marches on its capital in a final push to win a two-week war. Abiy’s office on Wednesday tried to ease those fears, saying its “law enforcement operation” against a Tigray regional leadership it regards as illegal …

War crimes feared in Ethiopia’s Tigray, Amnesty reports massacre
4 years, 1 month ago

War crimes feared in Ethiopia’s Tigray, Amnesty reports massacre

Al Jazeera  

Conflict in Tigray has killed hundreds, sent refugees flooding into Sudan, and raised fears it may draw in Eritrea. “It is essential that peace be restored and civilians be protected.” Prime Minister Abiy accuses the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which rules the mountainous region of more than five million people, of treason and terrorism. The TPLF says Abiy’s government has …

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