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The mediators are meeting amid slow implementation of the truce and as aid workers say Eritrean troops remain. Mediators between Ethiopia’s federal government and authorities in the Tigray region, embroiled until last month in a brutal war, are stepping up efforts to enforce a truce as relations between the two sides inch closer towards normality. After more than a month’s …

Tigrayan fighters say they forced Ethiopian troops out of the regional capital, but the government insists it was a tactical withdrawal. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said his country’s army pulled out of Mekelle, the capital of the embattled Tigray region, because it was no longer a “centre of gravity for conflicts” – a statement rejected by the Tigrayan …

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Tigrayan forces made further gains against Ethiopian government troops and their allies on Tuesday, with a spokesman reporting they were in full control of the regional capital, residents said Eritrean forces had left. “We are 100% in control of Mekelle,” Getachew Reda, spokesman for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, said on Tuesday, referring to the regional capital. The TPLF, an …

Despite unilateral ceasefire declaration by federal gov’t, Tigrayan leaders say they ‘will carry out all the tasks necessary to ensure the survival and security’ of their people. Regional forces battling government troops in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray pledged to drive out “enemies” from the region, suggesting fighting will continue despite a unilateral ceasefire declaration by the federal administration in Addis Ababa. …

In nearly two months, Kiflom Tekleweyni has eaten very little. In a report published last month, the World Peace Foundation, a research organisation based at Tufts University, warned of the looming threat of mass starvation and famine in Tigray and accused Ethiopian and Eritrean troops of “systematically” dismantling the region’s economy and food system. In a statement last month, Ethiopia’s …

‘Horrific’: MSF says Ethiopian troops executed 4 men in Tigray

Trauma, anger as Tigrayans recount Eritrea troops’ ‘grave crimes’

Survivors and witnesses in Ethiopia’s embattled region tell Al Jazeera how civilians were raped and killed by troops from neighbouring country. “More than 10 soldiers took turns raping us.” “My husband was killed in our village,” another displaced woman from Mai Kadra said, blaming Eritrean troops, before pleading: “Tell the world we are dying.” Mai Kadra, in western Tigray, was …

Forces from Ethiopia’s Tigray region say Eritrean troops are part of the conflict and the war is far from over

CNN — An official from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has told CNN the war in Ethiopia is far from over and that Eritrean troops are part of the conflict. “We withdrew from Mekelle because we did not want to give them the pretext to bombard the city back to the stone age, to indiscriminately bombard and destroy the town,” …

Abiy Ahmed also told Parliament army would not destroy Tigrayan capital Mekelle after capturing it recently. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said federal troops had not killed a single civilian in their nearly month-long offensive against regional forces in Tigray. On Monday, Tigray leader Debretsion Gebremichael said his forces were still fighting near Mekelle, which fell to government troops after …

Ethiopian federal troops advancing on Tigray’s capital says gov’t spokesman

Nairobi CNN — Ethiopian federal troops are closing in on Tigray’s capital of Mekelle, Redwan Hussein, the government spokesperson for the state of emergency task force, told CNN on Wednesday. “The situation is escalating and thousands of people are internally displaced, without access to basic food and necessities,” George Readings, lead crisis analyst at the International Rescue Committee, told CNN. …