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Air strike hits capital of in Ethiopia's Tigray region - health official

(Corrects to reflect second tweet said strike near not on hospital)

Reuters

1st Ukraine grain ship for Horn of Africa reaches Djibouti

The first ship carrying grain from Ukraine for people in the hungriest parts of the world has docked at the Horn of Africa port of Djibouti as areas of East Africa are badly affected by deadly drought and conflict

The Independent UK

Haacaaluu Hundeesaa: sublime Ethiopian singer who inspired Oromo struggle protesters

I speak to myself whispering Our situation has defied resolution, our misery isn’t improving We are in despair and idling, that is why I am whispering. So sings Haacaaluu Hundeessaa to his people, the Oromo, in the song Waa’ee Keenya (Our struggle), calling on them to take action against centuries…

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Ethiopia Urges Int'l Pressure on Tigray Region to Accept Peace Talks

Ethiopian ambassador to Sudan, Yibeltal Aemero, accused on Monday many parties, he refused to name, of interfering and supporting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to fuel the conflict in his country. In a press conference in Khartoum, the ambassador called on the international community and neighboring countries to exert…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN condemns deadly air raid that ‘hit kindergarten’ in Tigray

UNICEF calls on all parties to agree to an ‘immediate cessation of hostilities’ as the federal gov’t denies involvement.

Al Jazeera

UN Condemns Airstrike in Ethiopia that 'Hit Kindergarten'

The UN children's agency UNICEF on Saturday condemned an air strike that "hit a kindergarten" in Ethiopia's Tigray region, killing at least four people including two children. Friday's strike in the Tigray capital Mekele came days after fighting erupted on the region's southern border between government forces and rebels, ending…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ethiopia forces accused of deadly attack as Tigray war escalates

Witnesses say a school in Mekelle was attacked and four civilians killed, but the government denies the reports.

Al Jazeera

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Airstrike hits kindergarten in capital of Ethiopia's Tigray

An airstrike by Ethiopia’s air force hit a kindergarten in the country’s embattled Tigray region, causing deaths and injuries on Friday, according to broadcasters

The Independent UK

Tigray war: ‘I can’t help my starving family’, says Ethiopian World Health Organisation boss

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns Tigrayan relatives are ‘completely sealed off’ by civil war

The Independent UK

Air strike hits capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region as fighting resumes

An Ethiopian air strike hit the capital of Tigray on Friday killing four people, including two children, rebel spokespeople and humanitarian sources said, as the government vowed to "take action" against military targets in the war-torn region.

France 24

Air strike on playground kills 7 in Ethiopia's Tigray region - hospital

An air strike on a children's play area killed at least seven people in the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region on Friday, medical officials there said, the first such attack after a four-month old ceasefire collapsed this week.

Reuters

UN chief urges Ethiopia and Tigray leaders to halt fighting

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging Ethiopia’s prime minister and the leader of its restive Tigray region leader to immediately halt the latest hostilities

The Independent UK

Fighting flares for second day in northern Ethiopia

Fighting flared for a second day in northern Ethiopia, residents said on Thursday, an outbreak of violence that has shattered hopes for fledgling peace talks between the government and forces from the Tigray region.

Reuters

WHO chief laments fate of 'starving' relatives in Tigray

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has made a passionate appeal for his embattled home region of Tigray in Ethiopia

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Fighting Flares Up in Northern Ethiopia after Five-month Lull

Fighting erupted between government forces and Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia on Wednesday, shattering a five-month truce and dealing a blow to peace efforts.

Al Jazeera

UN calls for ceasefire amid renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for a ceasefire after renewed fighting erupted around the Tigray region.

Reuters

Key events in the war in northern Ethiopia

A nearly two-year-long war in northern Ethiopia has killed thousands of civilians, left millions of people needing food aid and displaced millions more. Here are some of the main events in the conflict.

The Independent UK

Tigray forces allege 'large-scale' Ethiopia offensive

Authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region are alleging that Ethiopia’s military has launched a “large-scale” offensive for the first time in a year

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Fighting erupts along border of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region

Fighting between forces from Ethiopia's rebellious northern region of Tigray and central government forces has erupted around the town of Kobo, residents and both sides said on Wednesday, ending a months-long ceasefire.

The Guardian - UK

Tigray: almost one in three children under five malnourished, UN says

Urgent action needed to avert further disaster in war-torn country as funding ‘fast running out’

The Guardian - UK

Hunger in Tigray pushing women and girls into sex work

People turn to desperate measures after authorities stop 6 million people accessing their own money

Reuters

Nearly half the people in Ethiopia's Tigray in 'severe' need of food aid- WFP

The nearly two-year conflict in Ethiopia has left almost half the population of Tigray region in "severe" need of food, as aid groups struggle to reach the population because of insufficient fuel supplies, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.

The Independent UK

Ethiopia calls WHO chief's comments on Tigray "unethical"

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 global attention is due to Tigrayans’ “color of the skin.”

Al Jazeera

Ethiopia government proposes plan for peace in war-torn Tigray

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front dismisses the move and says the gov’t is engaged in ‘obfuscation’.

The Conversation

Nowhere to run: the plight of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia

Ethiopia has hosted large numbers of Eritrean refugees for years. Before the recent conflict, about 100,000 Eritrean refugees lived in camps in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.

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