Humanitarian Crisis in Tigray
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News: US calls for urgent restoration of essential services in Tigray, encouraged by ‘series’ of actions to end conflict
A UNICEF team assesses the nutrition status of mothers and children and provide much needed therapeutic food in Tigray. (Photo…
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View from Mekelle: Ethiopia’s Siege – Turning women’s bodies into a cell
The impact the destruction of health facilities has had on women’s capacity to access sexual and reproductive health care in…
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News: 65% of people in Irob, NE Tigray facing extreme food insecurity; 87,000 people displaced within eastern zone in March: UN
“Irob, also referred to as Irob land or Adi Irob (ዓዲ ኢሮብ/ኢሮብ ዲክ) in Tigrigna/Saho, is located in the north…
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News: UNSC to debate conflict-related sexual violence; annual report includes Ethiopia for first time
Members of the UNSC in session. Picture: UNSC/Archive Addis Abeba – Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will…
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Just In: EU ‘appalled’ by rights groups report on abuse in western Tigray, calls for ‘immediate halt to all human rights violations and abuses’
Picture: Human Rights Watch (HRW). Addis Abeba – In a statement released today, the European Union (EU) said it was…
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Just In: US ‘deeply troubled’ by rights groups report on acts amounting to ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Western Tigray
Jamila, a 27-year-old in Dansha town, described how in early November 2020, half a dozen Fano militiamen who were carrying…
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Analysis: New report by rights groups documents war crimes and crimes against humanity in Western Tigray zone
In several towns in Western Tigray, signs were displayed demanding that Tigrayans leave, and pamphlets distributed issuing Tigrayans a 24-hour…
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#ASDailyScoop: Tigray sees eight fold increase in pervasiveness of scabies: UN
The CDC says “human scabies is caused by an infestation of the skin by the human itch mite.” Picture: CDC…
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#ASDailyScoop: Operation Rescue center in Tigray receives school children to use its facilities
Children collecting grass at Operation Rescue project center in Tigray. Location undisclosed; picture: ORE Addis Abeba – Operation Rescue Childcare…
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News: Tigray state says no humanitarian aid after unilateral truce; Gov’t disputes account, blames Tigrayan forces
Families displaced by the civil war in Tigray sheltered in UNHCR makeshift camps. Pictures: Screengrab/TigrayTV Addis Abeba – In a…
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