TIGRAY conflict

An airstrike hit a bustling market in Ethiopia's northern Tigray village of Togoga on Tuesday, according to health workers who said soldiers were blocking medical teams from traveling to the site. Dozens of people were killed, they and a former resident said, referring to witnesses. Two doctors and a nurse in Tigray's regional capital, Mekele, told The Associated Press (AP) they could not confirm how many people were killed, but a doctor said on-site medical staff reported "more than 80 civilian…

A new commission of inquiry into the Tigray region by an African Union organization must "cease immediately", the Ethiopian government said. The Tigray region has been locked in a deadly conflict, which has led to warnings of famine and "ethnic cleansing". A statement from Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday criticized the independent inquiry as "misleading" and lacked a legal basis and instead proposed a common probe. But members of the new commission, created under the African Commission on…

Eritrean troops fighting Ethiopian forces in a war against the Tigray region's volatile leaders "will definitely leave soon," Ethiopia's UN ambassador said Tuesday in a move that would be welcomed by many including the UN, whose humanitarian chief accused the Eritreans of using hunger . as "a weapon of war." The war in Tigray was the subject of an informal closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council in which Chief of Staff Mark Lowcock warned that more than 350,000 people were starving, with deaths…

The Eritrean Foreign Minister accused the United States administration of supporting the Tigray People's Liberation Movement (TPLM) over the past 20 years of the current war in northern Tigray's Tigray region, saying it was unfounded to blame Eritrea for the fighting. Osman Saleh, in a letter to the UN Security Council, circulated on Monday, accusing President Joe Biden's administration of "causing further conflict and destabilization" through disruption and threats in the region. "The obvious aim of…

Thousands gathered in Addis Ababa to protest foreign pressure on the government over its brutal war in Tigray. Protesters at the rally in the Ethiopian capital carried banners criticizing the United States and others in the international community expressing concern over the atrocities in Tigray, where Ethiopian forces are chasing the region's outcast and now fleeing leaders. Troops from the neighborhood of Eritrea are fighting in Tigray on the side of Ethiopian government forces, contrary to…

Because the battle in Ethiopia's Tigray area maintains its severity, Nairobi has once more determined to delay its nationwide elections, which some opposition events had already introduced they might not participate in. The pinnacle of the Nationwide Electoral Fee, Birtukan Mideksa, in a gathering with political get together representatives on Saturday stated the vote on June 5 in Africa's second most populous nation could be postponed to an as but unknown date, citing the necessity to finish printing…

Government documents reveal that Eritrean soldiers are blocking and looting food aid in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops to Tigray in November to arrest and disarm leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the regional ruling party that once dominated national politics. He said the move came in response to TPLF attacks on army camps and that the fighting would soon be over. But as the war draws to a close, world leaders are increasingly concerned about…

The G-7 group of leading economic powers on Friday called for a "rapid, unconditional and verifiable" withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Ethiopia's conflict-torn northern Tigray region. "We welcome the announcement by Prime Minister Abiy that Eritrean forces will withdraw from Tigray," the G-7 foreign ministers said in a statement released in Berlin, referring to Ethiopian leader Abiy Ahmed. "This process must be fast, unconditional and verifiable." Ministers called for "an end to the violence and the…

The UN and an Ethiopian rights agency said on Thursday that they had agreed to conduct a joint investigation into abuses in the fought Tigray region, where fighting continues as government troops chase the region's fleeing leaders. An investigation of all parties to the conflict is "part of the much-needed responsibility process" for the victims of the conflict, the government-established Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement. "With several…

Troops from the Eritrean neighborhood entered the northern Tigray region during the conflict that took place five months earlier, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday since military operations began against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Abiy said Eritrean troops had entered the border because they were worried they would be attacked by Tigrayan forces, adding that the Eritreans had promised to leave when the Ethiopian military could control the border. The…