‘Very brutal': In Ethiopia, Tigray forces accused of abuses
3 years, 3 months ago

‘Very brutal': In Ethiopia, Tigray forces accused of abuses

Associated Press  

DEBARK, Ethiopia — As they bring war to other parts of Ethiopia, resurgent Tigray fighters face growing allegations that they are retaliating for the abuses their people suffered back home. He called the Tigray fighters “very aggressive.” USAID, which feeds millions throughout Ethiopia, has seen Tigray forces looting and emptying some of its warehouses, he said. “As we came here, there were lots of dead bodies along the way,” said Khadija Firdu, who fled the advancing Tigray forces to a muddy camp for displaced people in Debark. “I believe it was a deliberate revenge attack, and civilians are suffering.” In recent interviews with the AP, the spokesman for the Tigray forces Getachew Reda said they are avoiding civilian casualties. “Wherever we go in Amhara, people are extending a very warm welcome.” He did not respond to the AP about the new witness accounts, but tweeted in response to USAID that “we cannot vouch for every unacceptable behavior of off-grid fighters in such matters.” The Tigray forces say their offensive is an attempt to break the months-long blockade of their region of some 6 million people, as an estimated 400,000 face famine conditions in the world’s worst hunger crisis in a decade.

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Strong evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tigray war: Report
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Strong evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tigray war: Report

Al Jazeera  

Report says Ethiopia and allies had ‘intent to destroy Tigrayans as an ethnic group’ and calls for prosecution at ICJ. There is compelling evidence that Ethiopian forces committed genocidal acts during the Tigray war, a new report has concluded. Issued on Tuesday by the United States-based New Lines Institute, the 120-page draft quotes multiple, widespread and credible independent reports that …

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 …

Crimes against humanity continue in Ethiopia despite truce, say UN experts
1 year, 3 months ago

Crimes against humanity continue in Ethiopia despite truce, say UN experts

Al Jazeera  

UN experts say Ethiopia and its allies, including Eritrea, are still violating human rights in the Tigray region. “While the signing of the agreement may have mostly silenced the guns, it has not resolved the conflict in the north of the country, in particular in Tigray, nor has it brought about any comprehensive peace,” Mohamed Chande Othman, chair of the …

Ethiopia rejects ‘ethnic cleansing’ accusation in western Tigray
1 year, 6 months ago

Ethiopia rejects ‘ethnic cleansing’ accusation in western Tigray

Al Jazeera  

Human Rights Watch accuses government-backed militias and officials of committing ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’ in the region. The Ethiopian government has rejected a report by Human Rights Watch that alleges an “ethnic cleansing” campaign is under way in western Tigray despite a truce signed in November. The HRW issued a report last week saying the November peace agreement …

Eritrea, Ethiopia deny US accusations of war crimes in Tigray conflict
1 year, 9 months ago

Eritrea, Ethiopia deny US accusations of war crimes in Tigray conflict

Firstpost  

Ethiopia’s foreign affairs ministry called the US claims “inflammatory” and “untimely”, while Eritrea’s foreign affairs ministry said they were “unsubstantiated and defamatory” Nairobi: Ethiopia and Eritrea on Tuesday rejected a determination by the U.S. State Department that their armies, along with all sides in the recently concluded conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, had committed war crimes. Ethiopia’s foreign affairs …

US: War crimes on all sides in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict
1 year, 9 months ago

US: War crimes on all sides in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Monday that it has determined all sides in the brutal conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. He said after “careful review of the law and facts” he had determined that members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces, Eritrean Defense Forces, Tigray People’s Liberation Front forces and Amhara …

US says all sides committed war crimes in Ethiopia conflict
1 year, 9 months ago

US says all sides committed war crimes in Ethiopia conflict

Al Jazeera  

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Ethiopian, Eritrean and Amhara forces committed crimes against humanity. The United States government has concluded that all sides involved in a brutal conflict in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia have committed war crimes, including rapes, massacres of civilians, forcible deportations and ethnic cleansing. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday …

Eritrean leader dismisses as ‘fantasy’ alleged Tigray abuses
1 year, 10 months ago

Eritrean leader dismisses as ‘fantasy’ alleged Tigray abuses

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Eritrea’s president in rare public comments has dismissed as “a fantasy” allegations that his country’s forces carried out rape, looting and other abuses in the war in neighboring Ethiopia’s Tigray region. “Don’t provoke us” to cause misunderstandings, he added: “Let’s assume that the peace process in Ethiopia is going without obstacles.” Growing visibly irritated with questions, Isaias …

Tigray forces in Ethiopia say 65% of fighters left the front line
2 years ago

Tigray forces in Ethiopia say 65% of fighters left the front line

Al Jazeera  

Withdrawal reported as federal and Tigray regional governments finalise a plan on how to disarm the rebels. “We have accomplished 65 percent disengagement of our army,” Tadesse Wereda, commander-in-chief of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front said in a video posted on the TPLF’s Facebook page late on Saturday. It pitted the Tigrayan forces against federal troops and their allies, which …

Eritrean forces killing Tigray civilians in Ethiopia despite peace deal, report says
2 years ago

Eritrean forces killing Tigray civilians in Ethiopia despite peace deal, report says

LA Times  

Lead negotiator for Ethiopia’s government, Redwan Hussein, left, and lead Tigray negotiator Getachew Reda, right, sign documents Nov. 2 during the peace talks in Pretoria, South Africa. Eritrean troops have continued killing dozens of civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and committing other abuses weeks after the two main warring parties signed a peace deal, according to an official document seen …

Two years of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: A timeline
2 years, 1 month 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 …

Ethiopia: Government, Tigrayan forces agree to end two-year war
2 years, 1 month 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, …

Witnesses allege Eritrean abuses during Ethiopia peace talks
2 years, 1 month ago

Witnesses allege Eritrean abuses during Ethiopia peace talks

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Even as Ethiopia’s warring sides attend their first formal peace talks in a devastating two-year conflict, witnesses in the country’s embattled Tigray region tell The Associated Press that forces from neighboring Eritrea are killing some civilians and looting as they and allied Ethiopian forces head for the regional capital. In Shire, a staffer with an international humanitarian …

Ethiopians protest against outsiders amid Tigray conflict
2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopians protest against outsiders 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 Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The rallies included one in …

WHO chief warns time running out to ‘prevent genocide’ in Tigray
2 years, 2 months ago

WHO chief warns time running out to ‘prevent genocide’ in Tigray

Al Jazeera  

Tedros says food and health care being used as weapons in his home region in northern Ethiopia. World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says there is a “very narrow window now to prevent genocide” in his home region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. “There is a very narrow window now to prevent genocide.” Ethiopian government spokesman Legesse Tulu, …

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 …

Ethiopian army captures several towns in war-torn Tigray
2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopian army captures several towns in war-torn Tigray

Al Jazeera  

Rebel forces concede the loss of Shire as the UN warns over air attacks’ ‘devastating impact’ on civilians. The Ethiopian military has taken control of three towns from rebel forces in the war-torn northern Tigray region, the government said, amid growing alarm about the resurgent conflict pitting federal forces and their allies against Tigrayan rebels. “The ENDF has taken control …

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 …

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: UN truck hit by debris from apparent drone strike
2 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia: UN truck hit by debris from apparent drone strike

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Flying debris from an apparent drone strike has damaged a World Food Program truck in Ethiopia’s besieged Tigray region, the U.N. agency said Monday, after Ethiopian forces and rival Tigray ones recently chose renewed fighting over peace. The government accused Tigray forces of transporting fighters in trucks “illegally” painted with U.N. logos, and it warned humanitarian groups …

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 …

Eritrea accused of starting offensive on Ethiopia’s Tigray
2 years, 3 months ago

Eritrea accused of starting offensive on Ethiopia’s Tigray

Associated Press  

KAMPALA, Uganda — Eritrea on Tuesday launched a full-scale offensive along the country’s border with northern Ethiopia in what appeared to be an escalation of last month’s renewal of fighting against Tigray forces. Later Tuesday, Tigrayan authorities, in a statement citing the region’s “existential challenge,” asked their people to make themselves ”fully available for the all-round war we are waging …

Tigrayan forces accuse Eritrea of launching offensive
2 years, 3 months ago

Tigrayan forces accuse Eritrea of launching offensive

Al Jazeera  

US special envoy for the Horn of Africa condemns the crossing of Eritrean troops into Ethiopia’s Tigray region amid renewed fighting. The Eritreans are fighting alongside Ethiopian federal forces, including commando units, as well as allied militias, said Getachew Reda, spokesman for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, on Tuesday. “We have been tracking Eritrean troops’ movement across the border …

UN: Warring sides committing atrocities in Ethiopia’s Tigray
2 years, 3 months ago

UN: Warring sides committing atrocities in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Al Jazeera  

The UN’s International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia says it has found evidence of widespread violations by all sides since fighting erupted in 2020. UN experts on Monday said that there are reasonable grounds to believe that “war crimes and crimes against humanity” have been committed by the Ethiopian government in the Tigray region, warning that renewed conflict …

Eritrea mobilizes its soldiers, raising Tigray fears
2 years, 3 months ago

Eritrea mobilizes its soldiers, raising Tigray fears

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Eritrea is mobilizing its armed forces and appears to be sending them to Ethiopia to aid its neighbor’s war in the Tigray region, according to activists and international authorities. Eritrean rights activist Meron Estefanos told The Associated Press that her cousin was called up “and is somewhere in Ethiopia fighting and we don’t know if he is …

Airstrikes kill 10 in Ethiopia’s Tigray capital, doctor says
2 years, 3 months ago

Airstrikes kill 10 in Ethiopia’s Tigray capital, doctor says

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Two airstrikes hit the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region Wednesday morning, killing 10 people, many of them first responders, the director of the city’s flagship Ayder Referral Hospital said, as Ethiopia’s government gave no sign of taking up the Tigray forces’ offer to stop fighting and pursue talks. “Three of the victims need urgent major surgery, in …

Ten dead in second day of air raids in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
2 years, 3 months ago

Ten dead in second day of air raids in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Al Jazeera  

At least 10 people have been killed in a second day of air raids on Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, a hospital official said, in attacks that came after authorities there expressed readiness for a ceasefire. Renewed violence The reported attack followed a drone attack on Tuesday on Mekelle University, which the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which …

Ethiopia’s Tigray forces say willing to enter peace process
2 years, 3 months ago

Ethiopia’s Tigray forces say willing to enter peace process

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The Tigray forces battling Ethiopian troops say they’re willing to abide by an immediate cessation of hostilities and participate in a peace process led by the African Union, a significant shift to which Ethiopia’s government has not yet responded. The Tigray authorities’ statement Sunday night came after new pressure by the United States and others following the …

Ethiopia, Eritrea forces launch new offensive in Tigray: TPLF
2 years, 3 months ago

Ethiopia, Eritrea forces launch new offensive in Tigray: TPLF

Al Jazeera  

Troops from the two countries have attacked fighters in the northern Adayabo area, a Tigrayan rebel spokesman says. Getachew Reda, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front spokesperson, said on Thursday that both nations’ forces had attacked rebels in Adayabo in the north of the region. “Our heroic national defence forces are defending this invasion with full preparedness and resolve,” the government …

Ethiopia forces accused of deadly attack as Tigray war escalates
2 years, 3 months ago

Ethiopia forces accused of deadly attack as Tigray war escalates

Al Jazeera  

Witnesses say a kindergarten in the Tigrayan capital Mekelle was hit by an air strike and four civilians were killed, but the federal government denies the reports. An air raid killed at least four people, including two children, in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the head of a hospital said. The federal government denied the allegations saying the …

‘Large-scale’ fighting shatters lull in Ethiopia’s Tigray
2 years, 4 months ago

‘Large-scale’ fighting shatters lull in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s military has launched a “large-scale” offensive for the first time in a year in the northern Tigray region, Tigray authorities alleged Wednesday, while the government countered that Tigray forces attacked first. On Wednesday, the United Nations said Tigray forces “forcibly entered” a World Food Program warehouse in the regional capital, Mekele, and took 12 fuel tankers …

Fighting resumes in Ethiopia despite truce – Tigray forces
2 years, 4 months ago

Fighting resumes in Ethiopia despite truce – Tigray forces

Al Jazeera  

The fighting marks the end of a ceasefire observed since March and could worsen the humanitarian crisis in the northern Tigray region. Fighting has erupted between forces from Ethiopia’s rebellious northern region of Tigray and central government forces around the town of Kobo, residents and the spokesman for the Tigrayan forces said on Wednesday, ending a months-long ceasefire. “Last week, …

‘Large-scale’ fighting shatters lull in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
2 years, 4 months ago

‘Large-scale’ fighting shatters lull in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

LA Times  

Ethiopian government soldiers ride in the back of a truck on a road near Agula in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. Ethiopia’s military has launched a “large-scale” offensive for the first time in a year in the country’s northern Tigray region, Tigray authorities alleged Wednesday, while the government countered that Tigray forces attacked first. But …

'Humanitarian Crisis in Tigray Worse Than Ukraine': WHO Chief Ghebreyesus
2 years, 4 months ago

'Humanitarian Crisis in Tigray Worse Than Ukraine': WHO Chief Ghebreyesus

The Quint  

The Ethiopian government has criticised Ghebreyesus' statement and called it unethical. The spokeswoman for Ethiopia's prime minister on Thursday, 18 August, told journalists that the comments by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus were unbecoming of such a high-profile position, reported AP. Very little humanitarian aid was reportedly allowed into Tigray after their forces retook much of the region in June …

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 …

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 …

‘I await divine justice’: Rebels bring woes to Ethiopia’s Amhara
2 years, 9 months ago

‘I await divine justice’: Rebels bring woes to Ethiopia’s Amhara

Al Jazeera  

Amhara residents say Tigrayan fighters unleashed a campaign of horror during a five-month occupation of the area. Family members told Al Jazeera – as Tiru was unable to discuss the details without breaking into tears – that fighters loyal to the Tigray governing Tigray People’s Liberation Front saw the unarmed trio and “slowed their vehicle to shoot at them before …

Tigrayan forces killed civilians, gang-raped dozens: Amnesty
2 years, 10 months ago

Tigrayan forces killed civilians, gang-raped dozens: Amnesty

Al Jazeera  

Rights group says the rebel fighters raped underage girls, some as young as 14, in Chenna and Kobo last year. Tigrayan fighters killed civilians and gang-raped dozens of women and underage girls in two towns in Ethiopia’s Amhara region last year, Amnesty International has said. Sarah Jackson, Amnesty’s deputy regional director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, …

Tigray forces say Ethiopian airstrike kills 56 civilians
2 years, 11 months ago

Tigray forces say Ethiopian airstrike kills 56 civilians

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — An airstrike in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region has killed at least 56 people at a camp for displaced people, a spokesman for the Tigray forces said Saturday, as the country’s war continues despite the government’s talk of reconciliation. Ethiopia’s conflict shifted in late December, when the Tigray forces fighting Ethiopia’s government withdrew back into the Tigray region …

Tigray leader says fighters to leave nearby Ethiopian areas
3 years ago

Tigray leader says fighters to leave nearby Ethiopian areas

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The leader of Tigray forces in Ethiopia says its fighters outside of the region have been ordered to withdraw and return to the embattled federal state. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in a war that erupted in November 2020 between Ethiopian forces and fighters from the country’s Tigray region, who dominated the national government …

‘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 seeks to restrict media reporting on yearlong war
3 years 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’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 …

Report says Ethiopia’s Tigray forces raped Amhara women
3 years, 1 month ago

Report says Ethiopia’s Tigray forces raped Amhara women

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s rival Tigray forces raped or gang-raped local women after attacking a community in the Amhara region as they pushed toward the country’s capital, a new Amnesty International report says, opening a new front of horror in the yearlong war. The report released early Wednesday, based on interviews with 16 women and local authorities, is the most …

Tigray rebels raped women in Ethiopia’s Amhara region: Amnesty
3 years, 1 month ago

Tigray rebels raped women in Ethiopia’s Amhara region: Amnesty

Al Jazeera  

Amnesty International found evidence of brutal acts committed by TPLF fighters during an offensive in August. Tigrayan rebels raped, robbed and beat several women during an attack on a town in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, Amnesty International has found, amid mounting evidence of brutal violence committed during the year-long conflict. “The testimonies we heard from survivors describe despicable acts by TPLF …

People fleeing Ethiopia allege attacks, forced conscription
3 years, 1 month ago

People fleeing Ethiopia allege attacks, forced conscription

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — A new round of deadly attacks and forced conscription has begun against ethnic Tigrayans in an area of Ethiopia now controlled by Amhara regional authorities in collaboration with soldiers from neighboring Eritrea, people fleeing over the border to Sudan tell The Associated Press as the yearlong war intensifies. Urgent diplomatic meetings with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and …

Ethiopian Civil War Rages on as 9 Rebel Groups Team Up and March Towards Capital
3 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopian Civil War Rages on as 9 Rebel Groups Team Up and March Towards Capital

The Quint  

On Tuesday, 2 November, the Ahmed administration declared a state of emergency and asked its citizens to arm themselves in order to prepare for a siege by rebel forces on Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. The justice minister also declared that anyone violating the rules of the emergency would face jail time, especially for providing financial, material or moral …

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