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Ethiopia conflict at a 'national scale' according to UN investigators

Violations of the peace treaty are widespread in Ethiopia, UN investigators said Monday.

Radio France Internationale

UN experts say Ethiopia's conflict and Tigray fighting left over 10,000 survivors of sexual violence

U.N.-backed human rights experts say that war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace deal signed nearly a year ago to end a devastating conflict that also engulfed the country's Tigray region

The Independent UK

Ethiopia’s Amhara people are being portrayed as the enemy: the dangerous history of ethnic politics

The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency on 4 August 2023 and sent the military into the Amhara region to engage the Fano, a local armed militia. Some suggested that Ethiopia risked slipping into another civil war.

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Africa Climate Summit: US acknowledges unfair debt burden on Africa

In tonight's edition: The US acknowledges the acute and unfair debt borne by Africa as dozens of African heads of state attend day two of the inaugural Africa Climate Summit. Also, Eritrean troops are accused of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray.…

France 24

Rape still a weapon of war in Tigray months after peace deal

Medical records from across the region show sexual violence continues to be used ‘to intimidate and terrorise communities’

The Guardian - UK

Scores of women and girls were sexually assaulted after peace deal in Ethiopia's Tigray, study shows

A new study of medical records shows that at least 128 women and girls were sexually assaulted in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region even after a peace agreement ended a two-year conflict there

The Independent UK

Ethiopia's Amhara crisis: Abiy's political failures threaten a return to war

The federal government of Ethiopia declared a state of emergency in Amhara region on 4 August 2023. A special session of parliament endorsed this decision, placing the administration of the country’s second largest region under the military. This followed clashes between federal troops and Amhara forces resisting a government order…

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What’s behind the crisis in Ethiopia’s Amhara region? A simple guide

Tensions between local militiamen and federal forces sparked Ethiopia’s most serious security crisis since Tigray war.

Al Jazeera

The World Food Program slowly resumes food aid to Ethiopia after months of suspension and criticism

The United Nations World Food Program is slowly resuming food aid to Ethiopia nearly five months after taking the extraordinary measure of suspending aid following the discovery of a massive scheme to steal donated grain

The Independent UK

‘People are under siege’: why Ethiopia’s war in Tigray isn’t over

Despite a peace deal last November, Eritrean troops remain in some border areas, and the Irob community is paying the price

The Guardian - UK

UN experts urge Ethiopia to stop deporting, detaining Eritreans

Ethiopia and Eritrea are historical adversaries, though their troops fought alongside each other in the war in Tigray.

Al Jazeera

US says it's horrified by conditions in Ethiopia after theft leads to food aid pause and deaths

The United States humanitarian agency tells The Associated Press it is horrified by conditions in Ethiopia

The Independent UK

‘We blame government and aid agencies’: food relief thefts in Ethiopia leave those in need with nothing

The Guardian - UK

Hunger kills hundreds after US and UN pause food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray region, officials say

Local officials and researchers say hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and United Nations suspended food aid

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Once starved by war, millions of Ethiopians go hungry again as US, UN pause aid after massive theft

Millions of Ethiopians were starved by a two-year war

Al Jazeera

Fate of jailed fighters still unknown months after Ethiopia truce

The whereabouts of hundreds of fighters on both sides of the Ethiopian war are still not known, despite truce.

The Guardian - UK

Food aid suspended in Ethiopia after ‘widespread and coordinated’ thievery

UN and US halt food assistance in the country, where 20 million people rely on aid, in order to investigate ‘diversion’ of supplies

Al Jazeera

Ethiopia rejects ‘ethnic cleansing’ accusation in western Tigray

Human Rights Watch accuses government-backed militias, officials of committing ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’.

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Ethiopia: how a lucky village in Tigray survived the devastating war

The war waged by the Ethiopian Federal Government and Eritrea against the Tigray regional government, which lasted from November 2020 to November 2022, caused massive devastation. Multiple war crimes were reported and there were claims of genocidal intent. A starvation campaign led to the death of at least 300,000 civilian…

Radio France Internationale

30 years young: Eritrea reaches a milestone but struggles with legacy of its past

Eritrea is widely considered to be one of the most repressive states in the world. Three decades after gaining independence form Ethiopia in 1993, the impoverished Horn-of-Africa nation is still ruled by the same man – Isaias Afwerki.

Al Jazeera

Protesters in Ethiopia’s Tigray demand Eritrean troops withdraw

Tigray residents say Eritrean troops and soldiers from the neighbouring Amhara region are yet to leave, despite a truce.

Reuters

Protesters in Ethiopia's Tigray demand withdrawal of outside forces

Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday 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 Guardian - UK

‘I saw many bodies’: having escaped one conflict, Tigray refugees face new terrors

Living in UN camps in a rapidly collapsing Sudan, refugees from Ethiopia are being kidnapped, taken across the Sahara, and tortured for ransom – in a brutal, multimillion-dollar industry

Al Jazeera

Will Ethiopia and Eritrea be dragged into Sudan’s complex war?

The countries have a long history of getting involved in each other’s affairs, leading to fears of a regional crisis.

The Independent UK

US joins UN in suspending food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray

The United States Agency for International Development has suspended all food assistance to the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray “until further notice” while it investigates the theft of humanitarian supplies

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