Ethiopia is falling apart, but Abiy still has a choice
3 years, 6 months ago

Ethiopia is falling apart, but Abiy still has a choice

Al Jazeera  

By allowing the much-needed aid to reach starving Tigrayans, the Ethiopian prime minister may not only save tens of thousands of lives but also prevent his country’s disintegration. Allowing humanitarian access would also be the first step towards reassuring Tigrayans that, whatever the political differences between the federal government and the TPLF, they are still valued as Ethiopian citizens. Abiy’s decision over the next few days may decide which route is taken – humanitarian access and a country that could hold together, or a starvation blockade and national disintegration. Compassion for starving children in Tigray and caring about Ethiopia’s future as a single country come down to the same single choice.

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Ethiopia’s Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children
9 months, 4 weeks 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
10 months ago

Ethiopia's Tigray Region is Now Peaceful, but Extreme Hunger Afflicts Its Children

News 18  

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 is now peaceful but …

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

Ethiopia's Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children
10 months ago

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

The Independent  

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World Food Program says its ramping up aid to reach 3 million Ethiopians. Millions more are in need
11 months ago

World Food Program says its ramping up aid to reach 3 million Ethiopians. Millions more are in need

Associated Press  

The U.N.’s World Food Program says it aims to reach up to 3 million Ethiopians affected by climate change and conflict in the coming weeks, half the number it supported in the East African country before the agency introduced a lengthy aid suspension last year. WFP said it “is now working at pace to deliver food assistance to up to …

Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid
11 months, 1 week ago

Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid

New Indian Express  

KAMPALA, Uganda: Nearly 400 people have died of starvation in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Amhara regions in recent months, the national ombudsman said Tuesday, a rare admission of hunger-related deaths by a federal body. Only a small fraction of needy people in Tigray are receiving food aid, according to an aid memo seen by The Associated Press, more than one month …

Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid
11 months, 1 week ago

Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid

Associated Press  

KAMPALA, Uganda — Nearly 400 people have died of starvation in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Amhara regions in recent months, the national ombudsman said Tuesday, a rare admission of hunger-related deaths by a federal body. The memo urges humanitarian groups to “immediately scale up” their operations, warning that “failure to take swift action now will result in severe food insecurity and …

Millions urgently need food in Ethiopia's Tigray region despite the resumption of aid deliveries
11 months, 1 week ago

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

The Independent  

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Ethiopia says disputed western Tigray will be settled in a referendum and displaced people returned
1 year, 2 months ago

Ethiopia says disputed western Tigray will be settled in a referendum and displaced people returned

Associated Press  

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s federal government says the future of contested land in its northern Tigray region will be settled by a referendum, and hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people will be returned. The disputed status of western Tigray, a patch of fertile land bordering Sudan, was a key flashpoint in the two-year conflict between the Tigray People’s …

Dashed hopes and limited aid trouble Tigrayans a year after Ethiopia truce
1 year, 2 months 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, 3 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 …

Researchers verify 1,329 hunger deaths in Ethiopia’s Tigray region since cease-fire
1 year, 3 months ago

Researchers verify 1,329 hunger deaths in Ethiopia’s Tigray region since cease-fire

LA Times  

A woman scoops up wheat from a relief agency to be allocated to waiting families in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. 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 has 88 subdistricts and 643 displacement camps, so the number of hunger deaths …

US says it’s horrified by conditions in Ethiopia after theft leads to food aid pause and deaths
1 year, 6 months ago

US says it’s horrified by conditions in Ethiopia after theft leads to food aid pause and deaths

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The United States humanitarian agency told The Associated Press it is horrified by conditions in Ethiopia, where local officials have reported hundreds of hunger deaths in recent weeks after the U.S. and the United Nations paused food aid for one-sixth of the country’s population over massive theft of the aid. In an unusually strong statement emailed to …

Protesters in Ethiopia’s Tigray demand Eritrean troops withdraw
1 year, 7 months ago

Protesters in Ethiopia’s Tigray demand Eritrean troops withdraw

Al Jazeera  

Tigray residents say Ethiopia’s allies – Eritrean troops and soldiers from the neighbouring Amhara region – are yet to leave, despite a truce. Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region to demand the return of people displaced by a two-year war there and the withdrawal of outside forces now that the conflict has ended. They held …

Ethiopia’s Tigrayan rebels start handing over heavy weapons
2 years ago

Ethiopia’s Tigrayan rebels start handing over heavy weapons

Al Jazeera  

The disarmament is a key part of the peace deal signed two months ago between the government and the rebel group. Tigrayan rebels have begun handing in their heavy weapons, a key part of an agreement signed more than two months ago to end a gruelling conflict in northern Ethiopia, a spokesman for the rebel authorities said. The terms of …

More aid reaches Ethiopia’s Tigray region following truce
2 years, 1 month ago

More aid reaches Ethiopia’s Tigray region following truce

Associated Press  

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — More aid arrived in Ethiopia’s Tigray Wednesday following the signing of a truce earlier this month calling for unhindered humanitarian access to the war-torn northern region. The U.N.’s World Food Program reported that its trucks had entered northwestern Tigray via the city of Gondar in the neighboring region of Amhara. “More food, nutrition, medical cargo will …

Ethiopia PM Abiy vows ‘honest’ implementation of Tigray truce
2 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia PM Abiy vows ‘honest’ implementation of Tigray truce

Al Jazeera  

Under the implementation deal, humanitarian aid is to be allowed into Tigray, where rebels are expected to be disarmed. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowed on Tuesday “to implement honestly” a ceasefire agreement between his government and forces in Tigray, which he said was necessary to ensure peace proved sustainable. The truce signed on November 2 agreed to end two …

Ethiopia asserts 70% of Tigray now under military control
2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia asserts 70% of Tigray now under military control

The Independent  

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Ethiopia asserts 70% of Tigray now under military control
2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia asserts 70% of Tigray now under military control

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s lead negotiator in ongoing peace talks asserted Friday that 70% of the country’s northern Tigray region is now under military control and aid deliveries have resumed to the area, but there is no immediate confirmation from aid workers or Tigray spokesmen. National Security Adviser Redwan Hussein tweeted the information as the talks continued in neighboring Kenya, …

Two years of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: A timeline
2 years, 2 months ago

Two years of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: A timeline

Al Jazeera  

Here’s a look at some of the most important events of the two-year conflict in Ethiopia’s northernmost region. March 10: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemns acts of “ethnic cleansing” in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, as he calls for “full accountability” and the departure of troops from neighbouring Eritrea and other fighters. August 26: As fighting continues in the …

Analysis: Can Ethiopia iron out issues after AU peace deal?
2 years, 2 months ago

Analysis: Can Ethiopia iron out issues after AU peace deal?

Al Jazeera  

Ahead of the second anniversary of the start of Ethiopia’s civil war, there are concerns about the latest peace deal. “Today is the beginning of a new dawn for Ethiopia,” said former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, the AU’s lead envoy overseeing the talks, moments after Ethiopia’s lead negotiator Redwan Hussein and Tigrayan counterpart Getachew Reda signed and shook hands. “In …

Ethiopia asserts government got ‘100%' in Tigray peace deal
2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia asserts government got ‘100%' in Tigray peace deal

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Officials close to peace talks aimed at ending Ethiopia’s deadly two-year war confirmed the full text of the signed accord on Thursday, but a key question remains: What led Tigray regional leaders to agree to terms that include rapid disarmament and full federal government control? “During the negotiation in South Africa, Ethiopia’s peace proposal has been accepted …

Ethiopian govt, Tigray agree to end fighting after 2 years
2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopian govt, Tigray agree to end fighting after 2 years

Associated Press  

PRETORIA, South Africa — Ethiopia’s warring sides agreed Wednesday to a permanent cessation of hostilities in a conflict believed to have killed hundreds of thousands, but enormous challenges lie ahead, including getting all parties to lay down arms or withdraw. A draft text of the agreement, shared with The Associated Press by a diplomat, says Tigray forces will be disarmed, …

Ethiopia: Government, Tigrayan forces agree to end two-year war
2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia: Government, Tigrayan forces agree to end two-year war

Al Jazeera  

African Union says Ethiopia’s government and Tigrayan forces formally agree to end fighting after talks in South Africa. The parties in the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray have agreed on a “permanent cessation of hostilities”, the African Union mediator said, just more than a week after formal peace talks began in South Africa. Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, …

Ethiopia says 3 Tigray towns taken amid resumed fighting
2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia says 3 Tigray towns taken amid resumed fighting

Associated Press  

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian authorities say they have taken control of three towns in Tigray, the embattled northern region that has seen a resurgence of fighting since August. The three towns were taken “without fighting in urban areas,” it said, adding that authorities will coordinate with humanitarian groups in the areas that have come under the control of Ethiopian …

UN chief: war in Ethiopia’s Tigray must end, Eritrea exit
2 years, 2 months ago

UN chief: war in Ethiopia’s Tigray must end, Eritrea exit

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief on Monday demanded an immediate end to hostilities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and withdrawal of Eritrean forces fighting alongside the government, saying “violence and destruction have reached alarming levels” and “civilians are paying a horrific price.” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed that “there is no military solution” to the nearly two-year conflict between …

Ethiopia says it will seize airports in rebel-held Tigray region
2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia says it will seize airports in rebel-held Tigray region

Al Jazeera  

Addis Ababa says it will also take over other key infrastructure in the northern region. Ethiopia aims to seize airports and other key infrastructure in the north of the country currently under the control of Tigray regional forces, the government said even as it stated it wanted a negotiated solution. “It is … imperative that the government of Ethiopia assumes …

Calls grow for Ethiopia peace effort as fighting intensifies
2 years, 2 months ago

Calls grow for Ethiopia peace effort as fighting intensifies

Associated Press  

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Diplomats are calling on Ethiopia ’s federal authorities and their rivals in the northern region of Tigray to agree to a cease-fire as heavy fighting raises growing humanitarian fears. African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat expressed “grave concern” in a statement Sunday over the fighting and called for an “immediate, unconditional cease-fire and the resumption …

Aid worker killed in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region
2 years, 2 months ago

Aid worker killed in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region

Associated Press  

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The International Rescue Committee said Saturday one of its workers was killed in an attack in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region. The worker was “delivering lifesaving humanitarian aid to women and children” at the time of the explosion in the town of Shire on Friday, the aid group said in a statement. A World Food Program spokesperson …

Ethiopia’s economy struggles as war reignites in Tigray
2 years, 3 months ago

Ethiopia’s economy struggles as war reignites in Tigray

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Once home to one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, Ethiopia is struggling as the war in its Tigray region has reignited and weary citizens far from the front are pleading for peace. The finance ministry has declined to approve the financing of three industrial parks, symbols of Ethiopia’s China-like development, citing “budgetary pressure.” Instead, the economy has shifted …

Ethiopia calls WHO chief’s comments on Tigray “unethical”
2 years, 4 months ago

Ethiopia calls WHO chief’s comments on Tigray “unethical”

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government is criticizing as “unethical” the statement by the World Health Organization’s director-general that the crisis in the country’s Tigray region is “the worst disaster on Earth” and his assertion that the lack of attention from global leaders may be due to Tigrayans’ skin color. The spokeswoman for Ethiopia’s prime minister on Thursday told journalists that …

Ethiopia government proposes plan for peace in war-torn Tigray
2 years, 4 months ago

Ethiopia government proposes plan for peace in war-torn Tigray

Al Jazeera  

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front dismisses the move and says the gov’t is engaged in ‘obfuscation’. “In order to ensure a sustained provision of humanitarian aid as well as to facilitate the resumption of basic services and also to resolve the conflict peacefully; the committee has underscored that there is a need to conclude a ceasefire agreement as soon as …

Lack of help for Tigray crisis is due to skin color, WHO chief suggests
2 years, 4 months ago

Lack of help for Tigray crisis is due to skin color, WHO chief suggests

LA Times  

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — himself an ethnic Tigrayan — said the situation caused by the ongoing conflict in his home country of Ethiopia is worse than any other humanitarian crisis in the world. The head of the World Health Organization described the persistent crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region as “the worst disaster on Earth” and wondered …

Ethiopia to get $300m World Bank grant for reconstruction
2 years, 7 months ago

Ethiopia to get $300m World Bank grant for reconstruction

Al Jazeera  

Fighting in the northern region of Tigray has eased since a unilateral ceasefire was declared by the federal government. Ethiopia and the World Bank have signed a pact for a grant of $300m to assist reconstruction and recovery in conflict-hit areas, the finance ministry said. Fighting that erupted in the northern region of Tigray in November 2020, and spilled over …

‘We’ve finished our tears’: Tigray’s main hospital exhausts food
2 years, 8 months ago

‘We’ve finished our tears’: Tigray’s main hospital exhausts food

Al Jazeera  

More than 90 percent of Tigray’s people need food aid, despite a truce called to the 18-month-long civil war in Ethiopia. The main hospital in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged region of Tigray has sent home 240 patients after food supplies ran out last week, officials have said. The decision by Ayder Referral Hospital in Tigray’s capital Mekelle underscores how little food aid …

Ethiopia declares unilateral truce to allow aid into Tigray
2 years, 9 months ago

Ethiopia declares unilateral truce to allow aid into Tigray

Al Jazeera  

Ethiopia’s government has declared “an indefinite humanitarian truce effective immediately”, saying it hoped to help hasten delivery of emergency aid into the Tigray region, where hundreds of thousands face starvation. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government “is committed to exert maximum effort to facilitate the free flow of emergency humanitarian aid into the Tigray region,” it said in a statement on …

UN: ‘Extreme lack of food’ for many in Ethiopia’s Tigray
2 years, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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 …

UN: Food aid in Ethiopia’s Tigray now at ‘all-time lowest’
2 years, 11 months ago

UN: Food aid in Ethiopia’s Tigray now at ‘all-time lowest’

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations says food distribution in Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region has reached its “all-time lowest” while more than 50,000 children are thought to be severely malnourished, the latest sign of growing crisis amid efforts to end the country’s 14-month war. Thursday’s update by the U.N. humanitarian agency says food aid stocks and fuel are “almost entirely …

UN boss cites ‘demonstrable effort’ for Ethiopia peace after call
2 years, 11 months ago

UN boss cites ‘demonstrable effort’ for Ethiopia peace after call

Al Jazeera  

Antonio Guterres says delighted to hear of ‘a demonstrable effort to make peace’ in Ethiopia following conversation with AU envoy. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said there is a “real opportunity” for an end to more than 14 months of fighting between government and Tigrayan forces, following a call with the African Union’s special envoy. Guterres’s statement on Wednesday …

U.N. says 22 million Ethiopians will need food aid in 2022
3 years ago

U.N. says 22 million Ethiopians will need food aid in 2022

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — An estimated 22 million Ethiopians will require humanitarian assistance in 2022, according to a United Nations report. “Humanitarian needs remain high in several parts of Ethiopia with at least 20 million people requiring some form of humanitarian assistance until the end of the year,” the report says adding the number of people depending on emergency food assistance …

‘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 …

Ethiopia seeks to restrict media reporting on yearlong war
3 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia seeks to restrict media reporting on yearlong war

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government has issued a new order aiming to restrict media reporting of the country’s yearlong war, prohibiting the sharing of non-official information on “military-related movements, battlefront results and situations.” The statement released late Thursday, which applies to everyone in the country, also warns that “supporting the directly or indirectly in the name of freedom of speech …

Ethiopia’s Tigray is under a ‘systematic’ blockade: WHO chief
3 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia’s Tigray is under a ‘systematic’ blockade: WHO chief

Al Jazeera  

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said Tigrayans across the country were being profiled and arrested by the thousands. Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region is under “systematic blockade”, the World Health Organization director-general has said, warning that people were starving to death and dying from lack of access to medicine. “People are dying because of lack of supplies,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself from …

Ethiopia ‘descending into widening civil war’: UN
3 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia ‘descending into widening civil war’: UN

Al Jazeera  

Along with AU envoy, UN’s Rosemary DiCarlo called for an immediate cessation of hostilities as crisis in Tigray widens. UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo has said the risk of Ethiopia “descending into widening civil war is only too real”, adding that the political repercussions of “intensifying violence in the wider region would be immense, compounding the many crises besetting the …

Rebels and rulers: The Hindu Editorial on Ethiopia crisis
3 years, 2 months ago

Rebels and rulers: The Hindu Editorial on Ethiopia crisis

The Hindu  

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ’s year-long war on the rebels in the northern Tigray region threatens to pull the whole country into a deadly civil war between the federal troops and several ethnic militias. When the war began, Mr. Abiy, a Nobel peace laureate, wanted to oust the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, an ethnic paramilitary group-turned-political party, in Tigray …

Ethiopia’s Abiy urges ‘sacrifices’ as US orders staff out
3 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia’s Abiy urges ‘sacrifices’ as US orders staff out

Al Jazeera  

Prime minister says Ethiopians must be ready to make ‘sacrifices’ to ‘salvage’ country as conflict with Tigrayan forces deepens. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has told Ethiopians they must be ready to make “sacrifices” to save the country from rebel forces, as the United States ordered non-emergency government employees to leave Ethiopia The yearlong fighting between federal government troops and Tigrayan …

Tigray is starving, it is time for the UN to act
3 years, 2 months ago

Tigray is starving, it is time for the UN to act

Al Jazeera  

The aid should flow to Tigray now, no matter what. This is despite the UN’s own assessment that there are famine conditions in Tigray and that the Ethiopian government is systematically obstructing the delivery of essential aid to the region. Last month, PBS Newshour asked former UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock, “Is the Ethiopian government trying to starve Tigray?” …

UN report says Ethiopia’s war marked by ‘extreme brutality’
3 years, 2 months ago

UN report says Ethiopia’s war marked by ‘extreme brutality’

Associated Press  

GENEVA — All sides in Ethiopia’s yearlong war in the Tigray region have committed abuses marked by “extreme brutality” that could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday, noting “the big numbers of violations” are linked to Ethiopian forces and those from neighboring Eritrea. Despite the report’s shortcomings, Abiy’s office said in …

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