The unintended consequence of Ethiopia’s civil war might be a border war with Sudan
Uprooted from their homes, women and children are hit hard by the conflict in Metekel Zone, Benishangul Gumuz region. (Flickr/UNICEF/Mulugeta Ayene)
Ethiopia is at war with itself and the international community is struggling to respond. In nearly four months of fighting across Ethiopia’s Tigray region, more than sixty thousand Tigrayan refugees have fled into neighboring Sudan and 80 percent of the region’s six million citizens have been cut off from life-saving humanitarian access. Despite rolling media and internet blackouts, a steadytrickle of stories has emerged that paint a gruesome picture of mass atrocities, widespread rape, summary executions, and the wholesale destruction of the region’s critical infrastructure.
February 28, 2021 at 10:55am
Thanks to all who messaged us yesterday: “I was doing a lot of reading after I passed the protest. It’s a horrible situation in Ethiopia. If you haven’t read anything about it, basically, the new Ethiopian government is attacking one region of the country for not wanting to join into a new political system/ supporting the new government that came into power in November. They’ve been slaughtering the people of the region. Eritrea’s government has been helping.”
“Ethiopian and Eritrean forces committed war crimes during an offensive to take control of the town of Axum in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region late last year, with one massacre by Eritrean troops a potential crime against humanity,
The rugged landscape of Tigray, Ethiopia’s most northern region, stretches away to the north and into Eritrea. The Tigray Region has been rocked by conflict since November 2020, and the International Crisis Group believes the conflict is far from over despite the federal government gaining administrative control of the Tigrayan capital, Mekelle, and other main cities in the region. (File photo) Credit: James Jeffrey/IPS
BONN, Germany, Feb 19 2021 (IPS) - While Ethiopia’s federal government may have administrative control of the Tigrayan capital, Mekelle, and other main cities in the region, including Shire, Adwa, and Aksum, after removing the regional government from power in late November armed resistance in Tigray is not over and could continue for months.
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Massawa, 10February 2021- Strong integrated effort is being exerted in cooperation with agricultural experts, members of the Defense Forces, and the public to control the second desert locust swarm that has appeared in Ghinda subzone.
The coordinators of the campaign indicated that so far 70% of the locust invasion that has been stretched from Ghinda town to Embatkala has been put in control and effort is ongoing.
Indicating that the desert locust invasion that came across the border is dangerous both in number and type, Mr. Dawit Angesom, head of Plant Development at the Ministry of Agriculture branch in the sub-zone said that integrated effort is being made to put under control the invasion.