Tag: Ethiopia
UN official: Key committee says 350,000 in famine in Tigray
UNITED NATIONS — A high-level U.N.-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimates that some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray...
Report on Tigray: 350,000 face famine, 2 million a step away
UNITED NATIONS — A report issued Thursday warns that over 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray province are facing famine and over 2 million are...
Sudan, Egypt renew calls for int’l role in Ethiopia dispute
CAIRO — Sudan and Egypt renewed calls Wednesday for the international community to help in resolving their decade-long dispute with Ethiopia over a giant...
UN: Famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Friday that famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and the country's north and there...
Lost limbs, rising anger as town is caught up in Tigray war
HAWZEN, Ethiopia — Shops remained shuttered, some government workers hadn’t been paid and the town’s main hospital was utterly laid to waste. But the...
Aid worker killed in Tigray as humanitarians are targeted
KAMPALA, Uganda — An Ethiopian national working for an Italian charity was killed in the war-hit Tigray region on Saturday after he was “hit...
Egypt, Sudan conclude war games amid Ethiopia’s dam dispute
CAIRO — Egypt and Sudan on Monday concluded joint war games that involved ground, air and naval units. The six-day drill meant to showcase...
Ethiopians protest US sanctions over brutal Tigray war
KAMPALA, Uganda — Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the nation's capital Sunday to protest outside pressure on the government over its brutal war in...
‘Our season’: Eritrean troops kill, rape, loot in Tigray
MEKELE, Ethiopia — Women who make it to the clinic for sex abuse survivors in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray usually struggle to...
UN official slams Ethiopia’s arrests of displaced in Tigray
JOHANNESBURG — A U.N. official has condemned the arrests of scores of people displaced by the ongoing Tigray conflict, where fighting continues between the...
