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Official document describes scale of abuses in Ethiopia war

Dozens of women and girls have been raped and hundreds of civilians killed during fighting in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region

The Independent UK

Commentary: The world’s worst war you aren’t watching is in Ethiopia

While the world’s eyes are trained on the war in Ukraine and whether Vladimir Putin is unhinged enough to use nuclear weapons, another war rages mostly unseen some 3,000 miles away in Ethiopia.

Chicago Tribune

New October date set for talks in Ethiopia's Tigray war

The Ethiopian prime minister’s national security adviser says the African Union has scheduled peace talks to resolve Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict for Oct. 24

The Independent UK

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Tigray peace talks to be held after WHO warns of genocide risk

Ethiopian has announced that peace talks on the two-year war in Tigray are to start in South Africa next week. The news comes a day after the WHO warned that urgent "action" was needed to prevent "genocide" in the region.

Radio France Internationale

WHO chief warns time running out to ‘prevent genocide’ in Tigray

Tedros says food and health care being used as weapons in his home region in northern Ethiopia.

Al Jazeera

WHO's Tedros says narrow window to 'prevent genocide' in Ethiopia

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday there was a "very narrow window now to prevent genocide" in his home region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia.

Reuters

Tigray war: two years on, the AU has failed to broker peace and silence the guns

The African Union pledged in 2016 to “silence the guns” by the end of 2020, an ambitious agenda of ending armed conflicts on the continent. Just two months before that deadline, the deadliest war in years erupted in Ethiopia. On 3 November 2020, the armies of the Federal Government of…

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Ethiopian army captures several towns in war-torn Tigray

Rebel forces concede the loss of Shire as the UN warns over air attacks’ ‘devastating impact’ on civilians.

Al Jazeera

Tigray forces concede loss of large town to Ethiopian army

Forces from Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray conceded on Tuesday that they had lost control of the populous town of Shire to the Ethiopian military and their allies, urging Tigrayans to fight back.

Reuters

UN chief says Ethiopia 'spiralling out of control', calls for end of fighting in Tigray

The United Nations sounds the alarm about the situation in Tigray, Ethiopia.Calls for a ceasefire go unheeded as government forces seize control of a key city. Also, a lockdown comes into force in two districts of Uganda as Ebola cases rise. We report from neighbouring Rwanda on the attempts to…

France 24

UN backs African Union's call for Ethiopia ceasefire

The United Nations on Monday backed an immediate end to hostilities in Ethiopia's Tigray region and a return to peace talks, calling for all sides to protect civilians and adhere to international law as fighting continued.

Reuters

Ethiopian army captures large city from Tigray forces: sources

Ethiopian government forces and their allies on Monday captured Shire, one of the biggest cities in the northern region of Tigray, from regional forces, two diplomatic and humanitarian sources said.

Reuters

Ethiopia vows to seize airports, facilities in Tigray as AU calls for truce

Ethiopia's government has vowed to seize control of airports and other federal facilities in the country's Tigray region, a day after the African Union appealed for a ceasefire.

Radio France Internationale

Ethiopian army captures city from Tigray forces -sources

Ethiopian government forces and their allies on Monday captured Shire, one of the biggest cities in the northern region of Tigray, from regional forces they have been battling on and off since late 2020, two diplomatic and humanitarian sources said.

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The Independent UK

Calls grow for Ethiopia peace effort as fighting intensifies

Diplomats are calling on Ethiopia’s federal authorities and their rivals in the northern region of Tigray to agree to a cease-fire as heavy fighting raises growing humanitarian fears

Al Jazeera

AU calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

The call for a truce comes as the pan-African body makes efforts to bring the warring sides to negotiating table.

Reuters

African Union chair calls for unconditional ceasefire, peace talks in Ethiopia

The chair of the African Union on Sunday called for those involved in the two-year-old conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region to implement an immediate, unconditional ceasefire and agree to direct peace talks.

The Conversation

Tigray has resisted Ethiopia's far greater military might for two years -- here's why neither side is giving in

The Ethio-Tigray war started on 4 November 2020. For almost two years, the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea – along with Amhara regional forces and militia – have waged war against Tigray’s regional government and society.

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Aid worker killed in air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray region, IRC says

An aid worker was among three people killed during an air strike on the town of Shire in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, the International Rescue Committee said on Saturday.

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'Where is humanity?' ask the helpless doctors of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region

Civil war has blockaded the country's northern region and decimated a hospital system that serves nearly 7 million people. Without basic supplies, power and medicine, thousands are needlessly dying.

The Times of India

Haile Gebrselassie: It's not about winning anymore now. There are no winners

With words as powerful as his famed burst on the home stretch of those epic long distance runs over two decades ago, Haile Gebrselassie tells it like it is. The ambassador from Africa was telling the world that if peace has to have a chance, if the planet has to…

The Conversation

Tigray's healthcare workers haven't been paid in over a year -- and bear the brunt of the war

Tragic stories of suffering and death have emerged from Tigray since 2020, when civil war erupted between the central Ethiopian government and the regional Tigrayan government.

The Independent UK

Ethiopia's Tigray forces say Eritreans widen war offensive

Ethiopia’s Tigray rebels say Eritrea has extended its offensive into their region, as diplomats scramble to convene peace talks to resolve the almost two-year-long conflict

The Guardian - UK

Postponement of Tigray peace talks latest blow in Ethiopia’s hidden war

Airstrikes, malnutrition and disease have claimed thousands of lives in one of the most deadly but least reported conflicts in the world

Reuters

Air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray region kills at least 5 people -doctor

An air strike on Friday in a village in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed at least five people and injured 37 others, the director of the hospital that received the victims said on Twitter.

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