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(Source: CNN, By Eliza Mackintosh and Richard Roth, Updated 1042 GMT (1842 HKT) May 13, 2021) – The United Nations has confirmed that military forces are impeding humanitarian access to parts of Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region, after an exclusive CNN investigation revealed that Eritrean troops were coordinating with Ethiopian forces to cut off critical aid […]

(Source: Human Rights Watch) – Government’s Investigation Underscores Need for Independent, International Inquiry Laetitia Bader Director, Horn of Africa   This week Ethiopia’s attorney general’s office released its findings into allegations of atrocities committed by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces in Tigray’s historic city of Axum in late November 2020. The press release stated that most […]

(Source: The National) – Congressional leaders have called for sanctions to be put in place to pressure Ethiopian and Eritrean forces to withdraw from Tigray The US Congress is pressuring the Biden administration to place sanctions on human rights abusers in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, pointing to the continued failure of Ethiopian and Eritrean forces to […]

(Source: The Irish Times, By Marie O’Halloran ) –  Minister says imperative Eritrean forces leave region in north Ethiopia There is growing evidence of sexual violence being used as a tool of war in the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said. The war in the north […]

(Source: CNN, By Nima Elbagir, Barbara Arvanitidis and Eliza Mackintosh, Video by Alex Platt and Mark Baron, Updated 0403 GMT (1203 HKT) May 12, 2021) –   Axum, Ethiopia — Eritrean troops are operating with total impunity in Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region, killing, raping and blocking humanitarian aid to starving populations more than a […]

(Source: The Globe and Mail, By Geoffrey York, Africa Bureau Chief and Zecharias Zelalem) – In a conflict in northern Ethiopia that’s claimed hundreds of lives, religious leaders are warning about another tragedy unfolding: The obliteration of centuries-old churches, mosques and manuscripts by bullets and shelling Church leaders in Tigray are pleading for help. “Monasteries […]

(Source: AP, By Lucy Kassa) –  The document, obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, claims a number of mass killings have taken place over the last five months At least 78 priests were ‘massacred’ in one zone of Tigray, according to an official church letter leaked to the Telegraph. The letter, which was addressed to the […]

(Source: Eritrean Hub, main source of this via Twitter) – #TigrayGenocide "Tigrayan farmers face challenges, transportation of seed can’t go through Kobo to #Tigray. Some irresponsible law enforcement personnel has launched this campaign to starve tigray" says deputy head of Tigray interim admin Abebe T/Haimanotpic.twitter.com/5vSjdENDzZ — 📈Leul Alula (@Leul_alula) May 10, 2021 Abebe Teklehaimanot, Deputy […]

(Source: Miami Herald) – The Ethiopian government confirmed on Monday that police officers and soldiers were involved in rapes committed in November in the conflict region of Tigray. An inquiry recorded 116 testimonies of rape that took place during the military offensive to capture of the town of Axum in November 2020, the general prosecutor […]

(Source: The Guardian, By Observer staff) –  Orthodox priest releases video statement on suppression of Tigray district Ethiopian government forces and their allies are committing genocide in the country’s war-torn northern province of Tigray, the head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church has claimed in a videoed statement demanding urgent international intervention. The appeal by Abuna [Patriarch] Mathias […]

(Source: The New Arab, By Alex de Waal) –   War broke out in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in November. Five months later, the scale of the carnage, destruction, and destabilisation is becoming evident. The spark for the fighting was an attack on army bases by soldiers loyal to the region’s ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front […]

(Source: CNN, by Duarte Mendonca and Nima Elbagir, Updated 1:07 PM EDT, Sat May 08, 2021) –  The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has condemned his own country’s rulers in a video recorded by the director of a US-based charity, saying “they want to destroy the people of Tigray” with actions of “the […]