Tag: Tigray
UN, US demand Eritrean troops leave Ethiopia’s Tigray region
The United Nations said on Thursday it is “now abundantly clear to all” that Eritrean troops are operating throughout Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and...
UN seeks access to Ethiopia’s Tigray for war crimes probe
The United Nations’ human rights chief asked Ethiopia on Thursday to allow monitors into Tigray to investigate reports of killings and sexual violence that...
Ethiopia frees workers with foreign media detained in Tigray, official says
Four Ethiopians working with foreign journalists in the northern Tigray region have been released without charges, an official and media outlets said on Wednesday.
A...
US presses Ethiopia to end Tigray violence, protect civilians
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Tuesday pressed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to end hostilities in the northern Tigray region, citing a...
US calls on African Union to exert pressure over worsening crisis...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday called on the African Union and other international partners to help address a deepening crisis in...
Hundreds of buildings burned around Tigray town, research group says
Fires that appear to have been deliberately set destroyed more than 500 structures this week in and around Ethiopia’s Gijet town, an analysis of...
Sudan and Ethiopia trade accusations in border conflict
Sudan on Saturday accused Ethiopia of an “unforgivable insult” in its sharpest statement since a decades-old border dispute flared late last year.
Clashes erupted between...
Ethiopia’s regional Tigray forces name conditions for peace with government
Forces fighting Ethiopia’s military in the Tigray region laid out eight conditions on Friday for beginning peace talks, including the appointment of an international...
Ethiopia confirms widespread rape in conflict-hit north
Scores of women have been raped in Ethiopia’s northerly Tigray region, authorities have confirmed, in the chaotic aftermath of an armed conflict last year...
Ethiopia closes camps housing Eritrean refugees in Tigray after reports of...
Two camps in Ethiopia’s Tigray region housing Eritrean refugees have been shut and the occupants relocated, authorities said on Thursday, after the United Nations...
Are SANDF communicators losing the plot?
Apart from somewhat poor communication with its various external audiences, there also appears to be a lack of communication internally at the SA National...
