Articles for Tigray

Weapon contamination in Ethiopia wrecks limbs and dreams
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Weapon contamination in Ethiopia wrecks limbs and dreams

Al Jazeera  

On his way home from the market, Birhane noticed a group of younger kids kicking a piece of scrap metal. That was also before the devastating armed conflict between the Ethiopian defence forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front shattered his hopes of getting a complete education. Despite the heavy damage the armed conflict caused to the economy, the streets …

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Bloodbath in Ethiopia: 48 killed in restive Oromia region; what's the conflict all about?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Bloodbath in Ethiopia: 48 killed in restive Oromia region; what's the conflict all about?

Firstpost  

A burned tank stands near the town of Adwa, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 18, 2021. Image used for representational purpose/Reuters Ethiopia’s human rights commission said Thursday it is investigating the killing of at least 48 people in the conflict-ridden Oromia region, attributing the massacre to armed rebels from the Oromo Liberation Army. The conflict in Oromia Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest region, …

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Hopeful Glimpse into the Scars of War: Tigray War Survivors Hope for Healing
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Hopeful Glimpse into the Scars of War: Tigray War Survivors Hope for Healing

Al Jazeera  

Two years on, Tigray war survivors hope time will heal the scars of war. The article focuses on Asmelash Mariam, a 28-year-old who lost a limb in the war and is now recovering from injuries sustained during the conflict. Despite the challenges he faces, he remains hopeful that time will heal the wounds of war and allow him to move …

Strong evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tigray war: Report
6 months, 2 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 …

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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 …

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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

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 …

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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

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 …

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Addis summit raises questions about AU’s muted stance on Ethiopia rifts
10 months, 1 week ago

Addis summit raises questions about AU’s muted stance on Ethiopia rifts

Al Jazeera  

For years, AU officials have refrained from addressing atrocities in Ethiopia. The only to express concern was Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame who had asked the international community to prioritise the Tigray war in early 2021.” No scrutiny Formally established in 2002, the AU’s precursor, the Organisation for African Unity was founded in Addis Ababa in 1963 to lobby for the …

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Ethiopian Forces Killed 'at least 45 Civilians' in January Massacre: State-affiliated Rights Body
10 months, 1 week ago

Ethiopian Forces Killed 'at least 45 Civilians' in January Massacre: State-affiliated Rights Body

News 18  

Ethiopia’s government security forces killed at least 45 civilians in a massacre in Amhara state in late January, the independent state-affiliated Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Tuesday. A statement said the EHRC had confirmed “the identity of at least 45 civilians who were extrajudicially killed by government security forces” in the town of Merawi for allegedly supporting an ethnic Amhara …

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Eritrean troops are accused of abducting farmers and stealing livestock in Ethiopia’s Tigray
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Eritrean troops are accused of abducting farmers and stealing livestock in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Associated Press  

Eritrean troops are abducting farmers and stealing hundreds of livestock in border regions of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, 15 months after a cease-fire ended a civil war there and called for their withdrawal, according to an aid memo seen by The Associated Press. Yemane Gebremeskel, Eritrea’s information minister, denied the allegations, telling the AP on Friday that the reports of livestock …

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Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid
10 months, 3 weeks 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 …

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Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid
10 months, 3 weeks 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 …

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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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Ethiopia talks with Oromo rebel group end without deal for a third time
1 year, 1 month ago

Ethiopia talks with Oromo rebel group end without deal for a third time

Al Jazeera  

The negotiations in Tanzania followed talks in April and May that also failed to produce an agreement. A second round of peace talks between Ethiopia’s government and a rebel group aimed at ending a decades-old conflict in the country’s largest region Oromiya has ended without a deal, both sides said on Tuesday. The violence in Oromiya has killed hundreds of …

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US will resume food aid to millions across Ethiopia after monthslong pause over massive corruption
1 year, 1 month ago

US will resume food aid to millions across Ethiopia after monthslong pause over massive corruption

Associated Press  

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The lead U.S. development agency plans to restart food aid deliveries for millions of people across Ethiopia in December, five months after it took the extraordinary step of halting its nationwide program over a massive corruption scheme by local officials. These anti-theft measures will be tested for one year, USAID spokesperson Jessica Jennings said, adding that …

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Ethiopia says disputed western Tigray will be settled in a referendum and displaced people returned
1 year, 1 month 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 …

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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 …

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U.S. resumes food aid deliveries to Ethiopia after halt over ‘widespread’ theft
1 year, 2 months ago

U.S. resumes food aid deliveries to Ethiopia after halt over ‘widespread’ theft

LA Times  

An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. The United States Agency for International Development said Thursday it is resuming food deliveries to hundreds of thousands of …

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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 …

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Researchers verify 1,329 hunger deaths in Ethiopia’s Tigray region since cease-fire
1 year, 2 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 …

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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 …

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UN experts say Ethiopia's conflict and Tigray fighting left over 10,000 survivors of sexual violence
1 year, 3 months ago

UN experts say Ethiopia's conflict and Tigray fighting left over 10,000 survivors of sexual violence

The Independent  

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Eritrean troops ‘committed war crimes’ in Ethiopia after peace deal: Report
1 year, 3 months ago

Eritrean troops ‘committed war crimes’ in Ethiopia after peace deal: Report

Al Jazeera  

Amnesty report says how Eritrean soldiers extrajudicially executed civilians and sexually enslaved women for months after a peace agreement last year. Eritrean troops allied with Ethiopia’s government have “committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity” in Tigray, rights group Amnesty International says. In a report released on Monday, Amnesty detailed how Eritrean soldiers extrajudicially executed civilians and sexually enslaved …

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Ethiopian airstrike on a town square in the restive Amhara region kills 26, health official says
1 year, 4 months ago

Ethiopian airstrike on a town square in the restive Amhara region kills 26, health official says

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — An airstrike on a crowded town square in Ethiopia’s restive Amhara region killed at least 26 people and wounded more than 55 others, a senior health official said Monday, days after authorities asserted that calm had been restored in the area. “When it fell, lots of people were killed and injured.” The state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission …

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