In November 2020 the Ethiopian government began military operations in the Tigray region against the region’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. Civilian structures in towns in Tigray ...
For the last two years, Ethiopia has been at war with itself. The conflict, which began in November of 2020, is with the Ethiopian military and troops from Eritrea, who have been fighting with the ...
The militiamen first arrived in Mehret’s hometown of Adi Goshu in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray region in late 2020. This was now Amhara land, they declared; Tigrayans would have to leave. Over the next ...
In November 2022, the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces signed the Pretoria peace agreement – described by the African Union as a “new dawn” – to halt a devastating two-year conflict that ...
(Nairobi) – All warring parties in Tigray have been implicated in the attacking, pillaging, and occupying of schools since the conflict started, Human Rights Watch said today. On just one example, ...
Here’s a look at the armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s federal Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and forces of the previously dominant political ...
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 ...
The screams of the dying gradually fell silent as the sky darkened. Around midnight, Berhane Gebrezigher, an ethnic Tigrayan, remembers lying in a ditch full of men who, like himself, had been shot ...
Millions have been displaced, thousands killed, and reports of human rights violations are rampant as a civil war escalates in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Fifteen soldiers raped her over the course of a ...
A woman sells vegetables on the street in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia in June 2021. Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images “There’s famine now in Tigray.” That 10 June 2021 ...
Fighters in the country’s northern Tigray region, who fought a bitter two-year war against the Ethiopian Army, must disarm within 30 days and allow security forces to take control of Tigray’s capital.