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Eritrean troops and forces from the Amhara region, who have been fighting on the side of Ethiopia’s federal military in the Tigray conflict, have been looting property and carrying out mass detentions in Tigray, according to eyewitnesses and aid workers (Ben Curtis/PA)

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Kidnappings and looting cited in Ethiopia’s Tigray after truce

Allies of Ethiopia’s federal military are looting property and carrying out mass detentions in Tigray, according to eyewitnesses and aid workers.

Field Marshall Birhanu Jula, left, and head of the Tigray forces Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede, exchange signed copies of an agreement (Brian Inganga/AP)

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Ethiopian and Tigray commanders reach deal on humanitarian access

A new round of talks has begun between Ethiopia’s government and Tigray regional representatives to work out military and other details of last week’s signing of a “permanent” cessation of hostilities in a conflict thought to have killed hundreds of thousands of people (Khalil Senosi/AP)

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Ethiopia and Tigray representatives hold new peace talks

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

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Ethiopia’s warring sides agree to stop hostilities, says envoy

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

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South Africa says Ethiopia peace talks have begun on Tigray

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

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Call for Tigray ceasefire as fighting raises humanitarian fears

Ethiopia Tigray Mother and Child Deaths

Babies in Tigray dying at four times pre-war levels, says study

Babies in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for more than five million people, according to the most sweeping study yet of how mothers ...

Thu, 06 Oct, 2022

Ethiopia’s Tigray leader invited to peace talks in South Africa

Ethiopia’s Tigray leader invited to peace talks in South Africa

The leader of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region has been invited to peace talks in South Africa this weekend as part of a pan-African effort to end one of the world’s most overlooked wars, according to a letter seen by reporters.

Wed, 05 Oct, 2022

Ethiopia War Economy

Ethiopia’s economy struggles as war reignites in Tigray

Once home to one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, Ethiopia is struggling as the war in its Tigray region reignites and weary citizens far from the front plead for peace.

Tue, 13 Sep, 2022

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WHO chief: I cannot reach ‘starving’ Tigray relatives amid government blockade

The director-general of the World Health Organisation says he cannot send money to his “starving” relatives in Ethiopia’s Tigray region amid a blockade by government forces.

Sat, 27 Aug, 2022

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

Ethiopia brands WHO chief’s Tigray comments ‘unethical’

Ethiopia’s government has criticised as “unethical” a statement by the World Health Organisation’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 attention from ...

Thu, 18 Aug, 2022

East Africa Hunger Crisis

Ethiopia announces ‘humanitarian truce’ in war-ravaged Tigray

Ethiopia’s government has announced an “indefinite humanitarian truce” in its war-ravaged Tigray region, saying the action was necessary to allow unimpeded relief supplies into the area.

Thu, 24 Mar, 2022

Ethiopia Tigray Conflict

Tigray forces say Ethiopian airstrike kills 56 civilians

An airstrike in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region has killed at least 56 people at a camp for displaced people, a spokesman has said.

Sat, 08 Jan, 2022

Ethiopia Tigray Conflict

Ethiopia detains thousands of Tigrayans deported from Gulf, report says

Officials in Ethiopia have arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared thousands of ethnic Tigrayans who were recently deported from Saudi Arabia, a new Human Rights Watch report says as the country’s deadly Tigray conflict continues.

Wed, 05 Jan, 2022

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

Britons and Americans swept up in Ethiopia’s detention of Tigrayans

British and American citizens have been swept up in Ethiopia’s mass detentions of ethnic Tigrayans under a new state of emergency in the country’s escalating war, The Associated Press has found.

Thu, 11 Nov, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis Abuses

UN Security Council calls for end to Ethiopia hostilities

Months of political tensions between Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed’s government and the Tigray leaders who once dominated Ethiopia’s government exploded into war last November

Fri, 05 Nov, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis Abuses

Ethiopia’s war marked by ‘extreme brutality’ with abuses by all sides – UN

The UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has said Ethiopia’s war has been marked by “extreme brutality”, as a joint investigation into alleged atrocities after a year of conflict found all sides had committed abuses.

Wed, 03 Nov, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

Ethiopia declares state of emergency as Tigray forces threaten capital

Ethiopia’s government declared a national state of emergency on Tuesday as rival Tigray forces threatened to move on the capital.

Tue, 02 Nov, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

Ethiopia’s PM defiant as rival Tigray forces make advances

Ethiopia’s prime minister has called on his supporters to redouble their efforts in the country’s war, as rival Tigray forces claimed to have seized key cities that control a major road heading towards the capital.

Mon, 01 Nov, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

Airstrike in Ethiopia’s Tigray region kills at least 10

Children were among 10 people killed when an Ethiopian military airstrike hit the capital of the country’s Tigray region, a doctor said. It was the deadliest of a new round of airstrikes that began last week as the year-long war intensifies.

Thu, 28 Oct, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

New airstrike in Ethiopia’s Tigray capital

A new airstrike hit the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Thursday following several days of such strikes last week. A Tigray spokesman asserted that six people including children were killed, as the year-long war intensifies.

Thu, 28 Oct, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

Ethiopian airstrikes in Tigray force UN flight to turn back – reports

Ethiopian military airstrikes forced a United Nations humanitarian flight to abandon its landing in the capital of the country’s Tigray region, aid workers said.

Fri, 22 Oct, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

Tigray’s capital hit by airstrikes as UN scales back presence in region

New airstrikes have hit the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, residents have said.

Wed, 20 Oct, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Conflict New Offensive

Ethiopian planes carry out air strikes on capital of Tigray region

Ethiopian military air strikes have hit the capital of the country’s Tigray region and killed at least three people, witnesses said, returning the war abruptly to Mekele after several months of peace.

Mon, 18 Oct, 2021

The AP Interview UN Humanitarian Chief

Tigray forces say Ethiopia has launched major offensive

Tigray forces say Ethiopia’s government has launched its threatened major military offensive against them in an attempt to end a nearly year-old war.

Mon, 11 Oct, 2021

The AP Interview UN Humanitarian Chief

UN humanitarian boss brands Tigray crisis ‘a stain on our conscience’

The crisis in Ethiopia is a “stain on our conscience”, the United Nations humanitarian chief said, as children and others starve to death in the Tigray region under what the UN has called a de facto government blockade of food, medical supplies and ...

Wed, 29 Sep, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

Children reportedly among Tigrayan detainees in Ethiopia

Small children are among those held amid a new wave of detentions of ethnic Tigrayans suspected of supporting Tigray forces in Ethiopia’s growing war, one detainee says, while witnesses and a human rights watchdog describe fresh disappearances in ...

Wed, 18 Aug, 2021

More bodies found floating in border river near Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray

More bodies found floating in border river near Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray

Six more bodies have been found floating down the river separating Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region from Sudan, refugees and a local physician said. They urged Sudanese authorities and the UN to help in search efforts.

Sat, 07 Aug, 2021

Ethiopia Tigray Crisis

Ethiopia accepts call for immediate ceasefire in Tigray

Ethiopia’s government says it has “positively accepted” a call for an immediate, unilateral ceasefire in the Tigray region.

Mon, 28 Jun, 2021

Ethiopia-Tigray Crisis

Airstrike in Ethiopia’s Tigray region kills dozens, say witnesses

The alleged airstrike comes amid some of the fiercest fighting in the Tigray region since the conflict began in November.

Wed, 23 Jun, 2021

UN Refugee Report

Ethiopia’s leaders said they intend to wipe out Tigrayans, claims EU envoy

A European envoy to Ethiopia has said the country’s leaders told him behind closed doors that “they are going to wipe out the Tigrayans for 100 years”.

Fri, 18 Jun, 2021

Ethiopia New Exodus

Doctors tell of attacks on health facilities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Health facilities in Ethiopia’s embattled region of Tigray have been “looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on health care”, the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said.

Mon, 15 Mar, 2021