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Why Tigray is unlikely to secede from Ethiopia by ELIUD KIBII Debretsion Gebremichael who led the fight against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government for control of the northern Tigray region Image: REUTERS • The war in Tigray has further created divisions in Ethiopia, particularly between Addis Ababa and Mekele. • Tigray region leaders in October last year—prior to the war—had said they would no longer recognise the administration in Addis Ababa or its laws. Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party won 410 seats in June 21 election. The opposit...

Ethiopian refugees stand in line to receive food, at the Hamdeyat refugee transit camp, which houses refugees fleeing the fighting in the Tigray region, on the border in Sudan. — Reuters/File ADDIS ABABA: The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Saturday added to UN calls for “urgent measures” to protect and assist civilians in Tigray, where damage to key infrastructure is exacerbating the imminent threat of famine caused by the eight-month conflict. Millions are at risk of starvation as the brutal civil war reaches a turning point, with thousands of captured Ethiopian governmen...

More than 7,000 captive Ethiopian soldiers paraded in Tigray by rebel fighters More than 7,000 captive Ethiopian soldiers paraded in Tigray by rebel fighters More than 7,000 Ethiopian soldiers captured by the Tigray Defence Force have been paraded in a rare video that shows them walking towards the Mekele Rehabilitation Centre, in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region. According to the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF), the captive Ethiopian soldiers walked from Abdi Eshir, about 75 km southwest of Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray for four days. The rebels marched into the city this w...