Ethiopia

The stalemate between Ethiopia and the UN continues due to the situation in Tigray: despite ongoing discussions, the international community cannot convince the Ethiopian government to allow it to provide humanitarian aid. And even within the Security Council, which met for the second time on the issue since the end of November, there are voices against how to put pressure on Addis Ababa.…

Ethiopia despatched Tigray officers again to work on Monday and ordered gun homeowners to disarm as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's authorities tried to point out normalcy within the nonetheless remoted northern area after weeks of struggle. Some energy and phone hyperlinks have been additionally restored within the regional capital of Mekele following a digital shutdown for the reason that February 4 offensive by federal troops. However there have been experiences of large will increase in gas and meals, plus water…

Intense diplomatic exercise for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. After visiting his counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi final Thursday, he obtained one other neighbor, Sudan's Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, however who didn't keep so long as anticipated. as reported from Addis Ababa, Noé Rochet-BodinThis assembly was…

Northern Ethiopia has been hit by a number of pure disasters this yr. First, the worst 25-year-old grasshopper invasion destroyed a whole bunch of hundreds of hectares of crops and additional weakened meals safety within the Horn of Africa. One other damaging pure phenomenon is the report flood over the last wet season that displaced greater than 300,000 individuals within the nation. A brand new local…

The civil warfare between the Ethiopian authorities and the Tigray forces has despatched 25,000 terrified and ravenous Ethiopian refugees fleeing to Sudan, amid issues over an rising humanitarian disaster. Among the many hundreds of individuals fleeing the five-week-old battle in Ethiopia's Tigray area are dozens of males, ladies and youngsters from Eritrea, one of many world's most authoritarian states. They already lived as refugees in Tigray, which had lengthy been a secure haven for them throughout…

The International Committee of the Red Cross has finally been able to reach Tigray. The dissident province of northern Ethiopia is in the grip of a serious humanitarian crisis caused by the war between the federal army and the TPLF's separatist forces. as reported from Addis Ababa,Noé Rochet-BodinA total of seven trucks with…

There are no food or water in the camps of 100,000 Eritrean refugees in Tigray. Some of them had managed to escape the fighting but the Ethiopian government decided to send them back despite the risks. as reported from Addis Ababa, Noé Rochet-BodinColumns of buses leaving Addis Ababa yesterday with more than 400 Eritrean…

International aid groups said on Friday that at least four workers had been killed in the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region. The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) said that its three employees who were killed last month had worked as guards at a project site. "Unfortunately, due to the lack of communication and ongoing insecurity in the region, it has not yet been possible to reach their families," it said. Separately, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said they were still working to confirm the…

In the face of the conflict in the Ethiopian province of Tigray, the international community is increasingly concerned about the civilian situation. Following the failure of the agreement between the UN and Addis Ababa last week, a new humanitarian agreement was reached on Wednesday. The UN Secretary-General announces the establishment of joint needs assessment missions.…

The UN and Ethiopia have reached a brand new settlement on joint missions to evaluate humanitarian wants within the northern Tigray area, Secretary Normal Antonio Guterres introduced late Wednesday. The deal, which was concluded every week after a earlier settlement, proved unimaginable to implement instantly, however will "guarantee full entry to the entire territory and full capability to launch humanitarian operations primarily based on actual wants and with none type of discrimination," stated…