Date: 13/03/2022Author: Martin Plaut0 Comments— Edit Tigray war mortality: half a million people? We often get questions on numbers of deaths due to this…
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Tag: Starvation
End the Ethiopian Government’s Humanitarian Aid Blockade to Tigray
By John Young In his 29 November 2021 Al-Jazeera article titled ‘Can Ethiopia avert deepening turmoil and prioritize peace?’ Ahmed…
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The Tigray Famine: Lessons from 1984–85
Source: The RUSI Journal Martin Plaut A blockade of Tigray is producing a manmade famine. The region, at war with…
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How Ethiopia’s conflict has affected farming in Tigray
Source: The Conversation August 22, 2021 Jan Nyssen Professor, Ghent University Emnet Negash, PhD candidate Ghent University Sofie Annys, Researcher,…
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“Tigray region of Ethiopia continues to experience one of the worst food security emergencies globally”
“In Tigray, humanitarians are targeting 5.2 million people; however, severe supply challenges are limiting distribution…In Tigray, while data on nutrition…
Read moreEXCLUSIVE UN official accuses Eritrean forces of deliberately starving Tigray
“The region’s justice bureau head, Abera Nigus, a Tigrayan, said the issue of food-aid access was being discussed at weekly…
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Tigray famine now “worst in the world” – UN
Mark Lowcock, the top humanitarian emergency official at the United Nations, told a webcast meeting of aid officials and diplomats…
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Millions On the Brink in Ethiopia’s Tigray, U.K. Document Says
Source: Bloomberg By Simon Marks 5 June 2021, 13:17 BST Ethiopian soldiers head to a tent at the Um Gargour…
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UN: Famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region
“We are hearing of starvation-related deaths already,” Mark Lowcock said in a statement.“There have been deliberate, repeated, sustained attempts to…
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The Ethio-Eritrean Hunger Plan for Tigray
The perpetrators of these starvation crimes are the Ethiopian federal forces, the Eritrean army, and Amhara forces. Source: Opinio Juris…
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