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(Source: DW) –  The conflict in Tigray, the northern region of Ethiopia, has mostly been unfolding under a media blackout since early November 2020. Thousands of civilians have likely died as a result of the crisis. They were sobbing silently, waiting for their turn at the end of a dark corridor — a dozen petrified […]

(Source: Martinplaut.com, 08 March 2021 Author: Martin Plaut) –   Special Briefing No. 3 Situation Report EEPA HORN “The day before yesterday, a woman in her 40s was found dead on the road to her home. She was found with her hands tied, injured to her head and sexually assaulted. This was in Mekelle. I […]

(Source: The Guardian, by Jason Burke Africa correspondent, 08 Mar 2021 05.00 GMT) –  Anger over violence that UN says could amount to war crimes drives recruitment in Tigray Ethiopian troops and their allies in the restive northern province of Tigray face a growing insurgency fuelled by a series of massacres and other violence targeting […]

(Source: Tghat, 06 March 2021) – Editor’s note: This account comes from an eyewitness, a professional who witnessed the war in Shire, and who asked for anonymity for fear of reprisal. He had previously sent us photos and images which we published here. The situation in Tigray in the last four months resembles how Romeo […]

(Source: Addis Standard, Addis Abeba, 06 March 2021) – The UN Security Council (UNSC) has dropped issuing a resolution calling for cessation of hostilities and respect for international humanitarian laws in Ethiopia’s war- torn Tigray regional state after a second attempt has failed to produce consensus among members states. On March 04, the council held […]

(Source: CBS, 05 March 2021) – United Nations — U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock warned Thursday that “a campaign of destruction” is taking place in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray province, saying at least 4.5 million people need assistance and demanding that forces from neighboring Eritrea accused of committing atrocities in Tigray leave Ethiopia.   As the Tigray […]

(Source: The Africa Report, 05 March 2021) – The 2018 peace between Eritrea and Ethiopia meant a breath of new life for Eritreans. Published in partnership with Ethiopia Insight. It was not an ordinary peace where two adversaries agreed to settle their differences. It had much deeper significance for Eritreans. Eritreans had been at war […]

(Source: Tghat, 06 March 2021) –   In the past four months, genocide through the ravages of war, in general, and war-induced famine, in particular, has been emerging as the primary weapon of choice of its three architects—Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia, President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea and the Amhara nationalists—to totally subjugate Tigray.  Their […]

(Source: AP, By EDITH M. LEDERER, UNITED NATIONS) –   An attempt to get U.N. Security Council approval for a statement calling for an end to violence in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and to spotlight the millions in need of humanitarian assistance was dropped Friday night after objections from India, Russia and especially China, U.N. […]

(Source: Al Jazeera, 05 March 2021) – United Nations chief Antonio Guterres leads call for Eritrean troops to leave but Security Council fails to reach consensus. The United Nations on Thursday alleged possible crimes against humanity in Ethiopia’s Tigray region including by Eritrean troops, as it urged a withdrawal by the neighbouring country, which denies […]

(Source: DW.com) – Senior figures have urged Eritrea to leave the region, saying mass atrocities were being committed and millions of people could go hungry without assistance. Senior UN leaders on Thursday called on Eritrea to take out its troops from the Tigray region in Ethiopia and also alleged that atrocities were being committed in […]

(Source: UN News) –   4 March 2021 | Human Rights Given the persistent reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the UN rights chief on Thursday stressed the urgent need for an objective, independent assessment of the facts on the ground. “Deeply distressing reports of sexual and […]

(By Tigray Academic Diaspora Europe (TADE), 05 March 2021) – Russia, China and India blocked UN Security Council a joint statement on the crisis in the war in Tigray siting it was an internal matter. How many enemies do we [Tigrayans] have to fight? It looks and feels daunting and propels self-doubt, unsure that whether […]

(By World Peace Foundation, 04 March 2021) –  Today (March 4, 2021) the UN Security Council is holding an ‘any other business’ meeting, instigated by Ireland, on the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia. Global Rights Compliance and the World Peace Foundation call on the UNSC to take swift, decisive and impactful action under UNSC Resolution 2417 […]

(Source: AP, By EDITH M. LEDERER, 04 March 2021) –       UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock warned Thursday that “a campaign of destruction” is taking place in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray province, saying at least 4.5 million people need assistance and demanding that forces from neighboring Eritrea accused of committing […]

(Source: Al Jazeera) –  UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said multiple parties to the conflict are possible perpetrators of sexual violence and killings. The UN rights chief says that her office has corroborated grave violations that could amount to “war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, including by Eritrean troops. Michelle […]

(Source: Human Rights Watch, March 5, 2021 4:39PM EST | Report) – Ethiopia: Eritrean Forces Massacre Tigray Civilians – Full Report UN Should Urgently Investigate Atrocities by All Parties.   (Nairobi) – Eritrean armed forces massacred scores of civilians, including children as young as 13, in the historic town of Axum in Ethiopia’s Tigray region […]

(Source: AP, By CARA ANNA, AIROBI, Kenya) –     Civilians massacred. Journalists arrested. People starving to death. Ethiopia’s government is under growing pressure to allow the world to see firsthand what has occurred in its embattled Tigray region as its Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister rejects “partisan interventions.” That pressure is expected to spike […]

(Source: Washington Post) –  People mourn the victims of a massacre allegedly perpetrated by Eritrean soldiers in Ethiopia’s Tigray region last Friday. (Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty Images) Opinion by Editorial Board March 3, 2021 at 6:27 p.m. GMT ETHIOPIA IS emerging as a major test of the Biden administration’s commitment to a foreign policy grounded in human […]