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May
01
2024
By MAYA MISIKIR
Weighed down by war and drought, Tigray struggles to get back on its feet 

Weighed down by war and drought, Tigray struggles to get back on its feet 

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SEVENTEEN months since the fighting stopped in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, people are still trying to rebuild what was deliberately destroyed – a mammoth task for a population and local government left destitute by the two-year conflict. Every facet of life in the region – from jobs to social services to security – has been impacted by the scorched-earth war, in which as many as 600,000 people may have been killed. It ended with an African Union-brokered peace agreement in November 2022, but the bill for reconstruction has been calculated at $20 billion. The climate has also taken its toll in Tigray. A drought…
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May
24
2023
By The African Mirror
Protesters in Ethiopia’s Tigray demand withdrawal of outside forces

Protesters in Ethiopia’s Tigray demand withdrawal of outside forces

NEWS
THOUSANDS of people demonstrated in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region to demand the return home of people displaced by a two-year war there and the withdrawal of outside forces that have remained since the conflict ended. The war between government troops and their allies from neighbouring Eritrea and the Amhara region on one side and Tigrayan forces on the other concluded with a truce last November after claiming tens of thousands of lives. Millions were forced from their homes, including hundreds of thousands from land disputed by Tigray and Amhara, whose security forces and militiamen continue to occupy the area. Eritrean troops also…
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Mar
25
2023
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia scraps bid to end UN-ordered Tigray abuses probe early

Ethiopia scraps bid to end UN-ordered Tigray abuses probe early

NEWS
EMMA FARGE ETHIOPIA has dropped a draft motion that sought to bring an early end to a U.N.-mandated investigative probe into the Tigray war, diplomats and observers told Reuters, after pressure from Western countries. The International Commission on Ethiopia, the only independent probe into the two-year conflict which pitted Ethiopia's army against forces in the northern Tigray region, has already found reasonable grounds to believe that all parties have committed war crimes. It is now also investigating "serious violations" committed since a November peace deal. The U.S. also determined this week that all sides including the Ethiopian and Eritrean armies…
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Feb
02
2023
By The African Mirror
Red Cross: Hospitals in Ethiopia’s Tigray region struggle to deliver care

Red Cross: Hospitals in Ethiopia’s Tigray region struggle to deliver care

NEWS
IMPROVED security in Ethiopia's Tigray region since a November ceasefire has allowed aid to reach some previously inaccessible areas, but humanitarian needs remain urgent, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. A two-year war that broke out in November 2020 between the federal government and forces led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the party that dominates the region, killed tens of thousands of people, created famine-like conditions for hundreds of thousands, and displaced millions. The government and Tigray forces agreed to end the hostilities in November, which has allowed additional aid to reach the region and for some…
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Jan
14
2023
By The African Mirror
Amhara forces withdraw from parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, army says

Amhara forces withdraw from parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, army says

NEWS
DAWIT ENDESHAW ETHIOPIA'S army said forces from the Amhara region, who fought in support of the federal government during the two-year war in neighbouring Tigray, have withdrawn from a major Tigray city in line with an African Union-backed ceasefire. However, a humanitarian worker in the city of Shire said Amhara forces were still there in "significant numbers." It was not immediately possible to verify the situation on the ground. Ethiopia's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a guerrilla force-turned-political party that dominates the region, agreed on November 2 to stop fighting following talks. The withdrawal of Amhara forces…
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Apr
02
2022
By The African Mirror
Part of aid convoy arrives in Ethiopia’s Tigray region’s capital

Part of aid convoy arrives in Ethiopia’s Tigray region’s capital

NEWS
TWENTY trucks carrying food aid entered territory controlled by Ethiopia's rebellious Tigrayan forces the United Nations said, the first small but concrete demonstration that a unilateral truce the government declared last week has improved aid access. It is unclear how much more aid might follow or how quickly. More than 90% of the 5.5 million people in the northern province of Tigray need food aid, according to the United Nations. World Food Programme Ethiopia, a U.N. agency, said on Twitter that 13 of these trucks had arrived safely in Tigray's capital Mekelle and that more of them and fuel were…
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Apr
01
2022
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia fails at U.N. to block funding for independent abuse inquiry

Ethiopia fails at U.N. to block funding for independent abuse inquiry

NEWS
MICHELLE NICHOLS ETHIOPIA failed at the United Nations in its bid to block funding for an independent investigation into abuses in the country's conflict, garnering just 27 yes votes, while 66 countries opposed the move and 39 countries abstained. The vote was in the 193-member U.N. General Assembly's budget committee. The budget committee then voted to approve funding for the inquiry established by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in December to collect evidence and identify those responsible for abuses, with a view to future prosecutions. Ethiopia has vowed not to cooperate. Ethiopian diplomat Lemlem Fiseha Minale told the…
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Sep
10
2021
By The African Mirror
War of words over Tigrayan forces in Afar

War of words over Tigrayan forces in Afar

NEWS
ETHIOPIA has claimed that rebellious forces from the Tigray region had been defeated in the adjacent Afar region and had withdrawn, but the Tigrayan forces said they had merely shifted troops to neighbouring Amhara for an offensive there. "The TPLF force has left Afar (region)," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dina Mufti told reporters at a news conference in Addis Ababa. "According to military information, they were defeated and they left," he said. Tigrayan spokesperson Getachew Reda, speaking to Reuters by satellite phone from an undisclosed location, said the Ethiopian authorities had only now realised Tigrayan forces had withdrawn. "We were not…
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Sep
09
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Tigray forces killed 120 civilians in village in 2 days’

‘Tigray forces killed 120 civilians in village in 2 days’

NEWS
REBELLIOUS forces from the Tigray region killed 120 civilians over two days in a village in Ethiopia's Amhara region, local officials told Reuters. The killings in a village 10 km (six miles) from the town of Dabat took place on September 1 and 2, said Sewnet Wubalem, the local administrator in Dabat, and Chalachew Dagnew, spokesperson of the nearby city of Gondar. A spokesperson for Tigrayan forces did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what is the first report of Tigrayan forces killing a large number of civilians since seizing territory in Amhara. Tens of thousands of…
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Sep
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Catastrophe looms in Ethiopia – UN

Catastrophe looms in Ethiopia – UN

NEWS
A de facto blockade on aid to the Tigray region in Ethiopia's north is bringing millions of people to the brink of famine, the United Nations humanitarian agency has said, warning of "looming catastrophe". The U.N. agency OCHA called on all parties in a 10-month-old war in Tigray to allow the movement of aid into the region where it said 5.2 million people, or 90% of the population, urgently need humanitarian assistance. Those include 400,000 people who are already facing famine conditions, it said. War broke out in November between Ethiopia's federal troops and forces loyal to the Tigray People's…
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