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(Source: Ethiopia Insight, by Tewodros Tsegaye) Abiy and Isaias are producing a deceptive drama to keep Eritrean troops in Tigray.  The parliamentary session held on 23 March taught us, rather sadly, that Ethiopia no longer has sovereignty and that any foreign power claiming national security concerns can breach our borders to do as it pleases. […]

(Source: VOA, By Reuters, April 16, 2021 05:07 PM)  NEW YORK – Eritrea told the U.N. Security Council on Friday that it had agreed to start withdrawing its troops from Ethiopia’s Tigray region, acknowledging publicly for the first time the country’s involvement in the conflict. The admission in a letter to the 15-member council, posted […]

(Source: Reuters, April 16, 202 18:44 AM BST) –  Girls as young as 8 are being targeted with sexual violence by parties in the conflict, said the U.N.’s aid chief By Michelle Nichols Sexual violence is being used as a weapon of war in Ethiopia’s Tigray, the U.N. aid chief told the Security Council on […]

(Source: The National) –  Aid chief Mark Lowcock says the crisis is worsening and atrocities continue. Top UN humanitarian Mark Lowcock described a deepening crisis in northern Ethiopia on Thursday and said that Eritrea was not answering global calls to withdraw its troops from the turbulent Tigray region. Addressing closed-door UN Security Council talks, Mr […]

(Source: AlJazeera By Reuters) –  Eleven women tell Reuters they had been raped by soldiers as a top Ethiopian official has made a sexual slavery accusation. Hundreds of women have reported that they were subjected to horrific sexual violence by Ethiopian and allied Eritrean soldiers after fighting broke out in November [File: Nariman el-Mofty/AP Photo] […]

(Source: Mail Online, By Associated Press, NAIROBI, Kenya) – Eritrean soldiers remain in Ethiopia´s embattled Tigray region and are killing civilians weeks after Ethiopia said the soldiers would leave, according to Amnesty International. The United Nations Security Council is expected to meet Thursday on the situation in Tigray, where thousands of people have been killed […]

(Source: Africa Confidential) –  Issayas’s forces were the spearhead of Addis Ababa’s ousting of the Tigray government. They are there for the long haul. As the fog around the conflict in Tigray slowly begins to lift, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed‘s reliance on the armed forces of his Eritrean counterpart Issayas Afewerki is becoming clearer, according […]

United States Mission to the United Nations Office of Press and Public Diplomacy For Immediate Release April 15, 2021 Statement by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on the Situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region Today the United States raised again in the Security Council its grave concern regarding the deteriorating humanitarian and human rights situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray […]

(Source: VOA, By AFP, April 14, 2021 10:42 PM) – UNITED NATIONS – A new meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tigray in Ethiopia, where fighting continues, will be held Thursday at the request of the United States, AFP learned Wednesday from diplomatic sources. This session will be held behind closed doors, like […]

(Source: The National, By James Reinl) –  Covid-19 has worsened levels of sexual attacks on women and girls across the world’s hotspots Women and girls in northern Ethiopia’s turbulent Tigray region face worsening sexual attacks and “cruelty beyond comprehension”, a UN official said on Wednesday in talks on gender-based crimes in warzones. Pramila Patten, the UN […]

(Source: Reuters, By Katharine Houreld, Adigrat) – The young mother was trying to get home with food for her two children when she says soldiers pulled her off a minibus in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, claiming it was overloaded. ADIGRAT, Ethiopia (Reuters) – It was the beginning of an 11-day ordeal in February, during which she […]

(Source: Amnesty) –  Amnesty International can confirm that Eritrean troops killed three people and injured at least 19 in an unprovoked attack on civilians in the centre of Adwa town on 12 April. Witnesses told Amnesty International that Eritrean troops were passing through the town located in the Tigray region, when they suddenly opened fire […]

(Source: FT, By Alex de Waal) –  The writer is executive director of the World Peace Foundation and a professor at Tufts University. This month, Ethiopia, a low-income country facing economic difficulties, is making its case for a financial bailout at the spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF. It is also conducting a […]

(Source: The Christian Science Monitor, By Ryan Lenora Brown, 12 April 2021) –  The military offensive in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has dragged on for nearly six agonizing months, forcing more than 2 million people out of their homes. Despite government attempts to keep journalists out, and information in, reports have emerged of mass atrocities by both […]

Ethiopia (Source:WSWS.org Jean Shaoul) –  Bloody conflict in Tigray, one of Ethiopia’s semi-autonomous, ethnically defined provinces in the north of the country, is fuelling support for secession from Ethiopia’s federal state. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched what he called a “law-and-order” operation against the regional government of Tigray, run by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front […]

(Source:Tortoise Media, By Gail Warden) –  Old rivalries and political repression have tipped Africa’s role model into a violent war – from which no winners can emerge Tuesday 13 April 2021 Every year for centuries, the festival of Mariam Tsion, Mary of Zion, has been held in Aksum, the capital of an ancient kingdom of […]

(Source: Eritrean Hub, By Martin Plaut) – This map from the UN says it all: the flight of ordinary men and women as they are driven from their homes by Amhara militia in the West and Eritrean forces in the North. In the West, people are fleeing as Amhara Faro militia and special forces “ethnically […]

(Source: VOA) –   The U.S. Secretary of State, along with the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom and the High Representative of the European Union is strongly concerned about recent reports of human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law in the Tigray province […]

(Source: Ethiopia Insight, by Getachew Gebrekiros Temare) –   UN human rights investigators should not work with the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, a state-funded institution that lacks political independence. On 3 November, a military conflict erupted between the Ethiopian federal government and the regional government of Tigray. On 28 November, almost three weeks after the […]

(Source: World peace Foundation, ByBridget Conley)  This transcript provides testimony from Eyewitness A, a woman originally from Axum, a small city in Tigray, Ethiopia, with a pre-war population of 70,000. Axum is an ancient site, with tall, carved obelisks from the ancient Kingdom of Aksum. It is also home of St. Mary of Zion, an […]