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

Ethiopian military parade with national flags attached to their rifles in Addis Ababa (AP)

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.

Thousands of Tigrayans in the capital, Addis Ababa, and across Africa’s second-most populous country have already been detained and fears of more such detentions soared on Thursday as authorities ordered landlords to register tenants’ identities with police.