Tag: Ethiopia's Tigray

Tigray can’t afford another war, and the world can’t afford to do nothing (Sheridan War – The Interpreter)

Despite the war in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia ending in November 2022, tensions are again escalating. Locals are braced for the possibility...

UN decries Ethiopia air strikes; says dozens killed this month (Al Jazeera)

The UN human rights office expressed alarm at “multiple, deeply disturbing reports” of air strikes in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, saying at least...

Does Ethiopia’s PM want a peaceful end to the Tigray war? (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia’s government appears to be offering an olive branch to end more than a year of conflict in the northern Tigray region. Prime Minister Abiy...

Aid groups halt work in northwest Tigray after deadly strike: UN (Al Jazeera)

Aid agencies have suspended their work in part of Ethiopia’s Tigray region after a deadly air attack on a camp for people displaced by the war,...

Dozens killed in Ethiopian air strike on IDP camp in Tigray (Al Jazeera)

At least 56 people have been killed and 30 others wounded in Ethiopia’s Tigray following an air raid on a camp for civilians displaced...

Reports of Mass Detentions, Killings, and Forced Expulsions in western Tigray (US Department of State)

The United States is gravely concerned by unconfirmed new reports alleging mass detentions, killings, and forced expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in western Tigray by...

Air strikes target capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray; 3 civilians dead (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopian military air strikes hit the capital of the Tigray region and killed at least three people, witnesses said on Monday, returning the war...

Tigray: Food aid reaches Afar and Amhara, but situation still ‘dire’ (UN News)

The first round of food distributions to people in Afar and Amhara regions impacted by the spread of the conflict in northern Ethiopia has...

The exemplary U.S. sanctions regime for Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict and its limitations (Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)

On September 17, the Biden administration unveiled a new sanctions regime that in the coming weeks could be applied to a wide set of warring parties...

UN warns of ‘unprecedented’ malnutrition in Ethiopia’s Tigray (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations has warned of “unprecedented” malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, in a report published hours after...

Will threat of sanctions end the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray? (Al Jazeera)

United States President Joe Biden has added pressure on all sides to end the fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. On Friday, he signed an executive order...

Ethiopia’s Tigray/Sudan – Dozens of bodies found in river between Ethiopia’s Tigray, Sudan (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: At least 30 corpses have washed up on the Sudanese banks of a river that abuts Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, according...