Children reportedly among Tigrayan detainees in Ethiopia

Ethiopian government soldiers ride in the back of a lorry on a road near Agula, north of Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia (Ben Curtis/AP)

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 recent weeks.

One of those detained described grim conditions in which more than 700 Tigrayan military members, their families and retired peoples are held at a camp in Ethiopia’s Oromia region.