Analysis: Many feared dead in renewed violence in central Gonder; authorities blame “Kimant rebels”, witnesses blame regional security
Addis Abeba, April 22, 2021 – A renewed violence invoicing regional security forces and the
Kimant community in central Gonder, in Amhara regional states, left
several people dead and displaced as well as properties damaged.
The violence which picked intensity
last week and continued intermittently as of the publishing of this
news flared up after “armed groups and security forces” clashed
in Chilga Wereda of central Gondar zone, according
to the peace and security bureau head of the Amhara regional
state, Sisay Damte.
Addis Standard received testimonies from three members of the Kimant community who were following the situation closely. Melaku and Getahun (names changed for security reasons) recount the sequence of events that lead to the recent conflict and insist it was reminiscent of a previous clashes as was reported by Amnest
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By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press
Published April 16, 2021
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the grave humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is deteriorating, with no sign of Eritrean troops withdrawing and alarmingly widespread reports of systematic rape and other sexual violence mainly by men in uniform.
Tigrayan refugee Belaynesh Beyene, 58, who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia’s Tigray, sits in her shelter in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
told a closed Security Council meeting that the U.N. knows that 4.5 million of Tigray’s nearly 6 million people need humanitarian aid and the government estimates 91% of the population needs emergency food.
Elsa Tesfa Berhe, 26, center, a reproductive health official from Adwa, collects water a day after arriving from Humera to Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 16, 2021. AP
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the grave humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is deteriorating, with no sign of Eritrean troops withdrawing and alarmingly widespread reports of systematic rape and other sexual violence mainly by men in uniform.
Mark Lowcock told a closed Security Council meeting that the U.N. knows that 4.5 million of Tigray’s nearly 6 million people need humanitarian aid and the government estimates 91% of the population needs emergency food.
UN warns sexual violence being used as weapon of war in Ethiopia s Tigray region
Issued on: Thousands have died in fighting in Ethiopia s northern Tigray region. EDUARDO SOTERAS AFP/File 4 min The United Nations aid chief has told the Security Council that sexual violence is being used as a weapon of war in Ethiopia s Tigray. The US ambassador to the UN said Washington was horrified by the reports of rape and other unspeakably cruel sexual violence in the region, adding that Eritrean forces must be removed from Ethiopia immediately . Advertising Read more
Mark Lowcock, the UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the Security Council that there was no evidence of a promised withdrawal of Eritrean troops from the region. He said people were dying of hunger in the northern Tigray area, where the humanitarian situation has deteriorated and sexual violence is still being used as a w