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NAIROBI, Kenya — Top military commanders from Ethiopia and its embattled Tigray region have agreed to allow unhindered humanitarian access to the region and form a joint disarmament committee ...
NAIROBI — Government soldiers seized control of a key city in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray on Monday after days of airstrikes and an artillery barrage, according to a diplomat who ...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It has been four months since the Ethiopian government signed a peace deal with rebels from the country's northern Tigray region after two years of a brutal civil war.
War broke out between Tigray’s rulers – the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) – and the central government led by Abiy, in November 2020.
Ethnic cleansing campaigns have continued in Ethiopia's Tigray region, despite a November 2022 peace agreement, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. "The November truce in northern ...
Ethiopia's government said on Friday that international aid was "allowed and ready" to move into Tigray, after humanitarian agencies said they were still awaiting access to the war-ravaged region ...
FILE – In this Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 file photo, refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region ride a bus going to the Village 8 temporary shelter, near the Sudan-Ethiopia border ...
Trucks carrying food aid have entered Tigray in northern Ethiopia for the first time since mid-December, according to a tweet from the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) on Friday.
Northern Ethiopia's Tigray region was one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in 2021 and 2022. It has since been crowded out of the headlines, but the situation remains dire.
November 2, 2022, marked the end of a deadly two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia’s battered Tigray region. Two years of rampant ethnic and cultural cleansing that has claimed over half a ...
Following conflict that ended in Tigray, Ethiopia, in November, hunger has become the leading cause of death in the region. Researchers said they verified 1,329 deaths from starvation.