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The Latest Breaking News from Tigray

Ethiopia embraces big projects but risks another war by seeking access to the sea

Ethiopia’s prime minister loves big projects

The Independent UK

Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray

Famine – the extreme scarcity of food – devastated Ethiopia’s Tigray region during and after a two-year war that began in November 2020. Yet, the famine’s impact is one of the least documented crises of recent years.

The Conversation

Why Ethiopia’s Tigray could be on the brink of another conflict

Fears of instability rise again as the TPLF and the federal government appear to be gearing up for a showdown.

Al Jazeera

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Ethiopian migrants face kidnappings and death, leaving behind heartbroken families

For young Ethiopians hoping for a better life, trying to get to Europe or the Middle East is fraught with the dangers of kidnappings, extortion and sometimes death in the shipwrecks while making sea crossings

The Independent UK

Migrants fleeing Ethiopia killed in shipwreck off Yemen coast

A shipwreck off Yemen’s southern coast has killed at least 76 people, with dozens still missing. Most of those on board were Ethiopian migrants fleeing poverty and conflict in search of work in wealthy Gulf countries.

Radio France Internationale

Echoes of Ethiopian famine in Gaza crisis

Letters: The use of starvation as a weapon is nothing new, writes Gail Warden

The Guardian - UK

Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report

Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions

The Guardian - UK

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Medical charity says Ethiopian soldiers targeted aid workers in Tigray war

International medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has released a report describing the gunning-down of three of its staff in Ethiopia's Tigray region in 2021 as an "intentional and targeted killing" by members of Ethiopia's military.

Radio France Internationale

MSF says 3 of its workers were ‘intentionally’ killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray

The 2021 incident was ‘intentional and targeted killing’ of three clearly identified aid workers, says medical charity.

Al Jazeera

Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant prospect

The Guardian - UK

Mass arrests and beatings: how Ethiopia went from celebrating journalists to jailing them

Hundreds of media workers have been detained, often on terror charges, or forced into exile by Abiy Ahmed’s regime

The Guardian - UK

UN food agency forced to halt aid in Ethiopia for 650,000 women and children

The UN's World Food Programme says that it has to suspend aid for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia due to a lack of funding, while the country faces tensions and rising food insecurity.

Radio France Internationale

War in Ethiopia's Tigray region has left many disabled veterans without care

The recent war in Ethiopia's Tigray region left many disabled veterans without the care they need

The Independent UK

Is Ethiopia at war again? A look at the rebellion in one of its most powerful regions

A loose collection of rebel groups is challenging Ethiopia’s military in one of the country’s most populous and powerful regions

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The Conversation

Ethiopia’s civil war: what’s behind the Amhara rebellion?

Ethiopia is in the grip of a civil war between federal government forces and the Fano, a loose alliance of ethnic-based militia in the Amhara region.

The Independent UK

HIV soars after a deadly war in Ethiopia's Tigray. Trump's aid cuts aren't helping

Ethiopia's Tigray region was once considered a model in the country's fight against HIV

Al Jazeera

Are Ethiopia and Eritrea hurtling towards war?

The two countries’ historically fraught relationship was mended in 2018, but hostilities are flaring again.

The Guardian - UK

Power struggle leads to coup in Tigray as war looms between Ethiopia and Eritrea

Tigray’s interim leader flees as rival faction seizes control, while Ethiopian tanks and troops move to border of Eritrea

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The Conversation

Ethiopia’s war may have ended, but the Tigray crisis hasn’t

For over 20 years, Ethiopia was led by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, a coalition of four ethnic-based political parties representing Tigray, Amhara, Oromo, and Southern nations, nationalities and peoples. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front was the most influential party within the coalition. However, in 2018, when the Prosperity…

Radio France Internationale

France's foreign ministry warns tourists to steer clear of Tigray in Ethiopia

France's foreign ministry on Thursday warned its citizens to avoid travelling to Tigray in northern Ethiopia following clashes between factions of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in the capital Mekele and the second city Adigrat.

International Business Times

Fears Grow Of Renewed Conflict In Ethiopia's Tigray

Infighting between rival factions in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray has raised the spectre of a fresh war between Ethiopia and neighbouring Eritrea, analysts and residents said Thursday.

The Independent UK

Ethiopia's Tigray regional government appeals for help after factional fighters seize key towns

The interim government of Ethiopia’s Tigray region has appealed for the Ethiopian federal government to intervene after a faction of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front seized control of two major towns, leaving several people wounded and raising fears of a return to civil war

The Independent UK

'We will just die in silence': US aid cuts hit Ethiopia's fragile Tigray region

Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia's war-affected Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the Trump administration's restrictions on foreign aid

The Conversation

9 million Ethiopian children have been forced out of school: what the government must do

More than nine million Ethiopian children are currently out of school. They are caught in the crossfire of armed conflicts, natural disasters, tribal tensions and economic hardships.

The Guardian - UK

War crimes and rebel bishops: Christmas celebrations marred by bitter split in Ethiopia’s ancient church

As millions of Orthodox Christians in the country prepare to celebrate on 7 January, the legacy of a brutal conflict is tearing apart its 1,700-year-old church

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