Tigray atrocities continuing almost a year after ceasefire, UN experts warn

Children at a camp for displaced people in Tigray. Food aid to the war-battered region was halted in March, after officials were found to be stealing grain. Photograph: Sopa/Getty

Human rights abuses are still being committed in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region more than 10 months after a ceasefire formally ended the bloody civil war, according to a group of UN experts.

The latest report by the UN’s International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia said the nation’s government was failing to protect its citizens from “grave and ongoing” human rights abuses being committed by militias and Eritrean troops, who fought alongside Ethiopia’s federal military and remain in border areas of Tigray.