This map from the UN says it all: the flight of ordinary men and women as they are driven from…
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Tag: Amhara
Thousands Kicked Off Contested Land In Ethiopia’s Tigray: Official
Around 60 trucks and buses carrying Tigrayans have arrived in the town of Shire, in the region’s North Western zone,…
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“One million people are missing” “Eritreans committed war crimes” – Interim administration of Tigray
Gebremeskel claims the interim administration had tried to set up administrative apparatus on western, north western and southern zones but…
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PM Abiy said he was forced into war on 4 November. Well, perhaps
In PM Abiy’s explanation of how the war in Tigray erupted he laid the blame for the conflict on the…
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War in Tigray is not the only Ethiopian conflict
Source: Addis Standard For background there is this report. NEWS: AS KILLINGS OF CIVILIANS CONTINUE IN METEKEL, AUTHORITIES IN BENISHAGUL…
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Ethiopia war in Tigray: An excellent background explanation
The war in Tigray is a fight not just to control the Ethiopian state, but to define its identity Source:…
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Ethiopian Human Rights Commission: Rapid Investigation into Grave Human Rights Violation in Maikadra Preliminary Findings
“Some of the Maikadra residents who attempted to escape to the ’desert plains’ or the nearby Sudanese town of Berehet,…
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Inside a Tigray town scarred by Ethiopian conflict
Source: AFP Inside a Tigray town scarred by Ethiopian conflict By Robbie Corey-Boulet, Mon, November 23, 2020 A pair of…
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Comment: “I expect this will not lead to a full-fledged war” – Rene Lefort
These comments from the long-time Horn Analyst, Rene Lefort. Always worth listening to. “Too optimist or naïve, I expect that…
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Ethiopia: Over 50 ethnic Amhara killed in attack on village by armed group
At least 54 people from the Amhara ethnic group were killed in an attack late on 1 November by suspected…
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