Media Monitoring: Jan 10th-Jan 17th
Airstrikes
UN decries Ethiopia air strikes; says dozens killed this month
Al Jazeera, January 15th, 2022
UN says at least 108 civilians killed in Tigray since new year began as it warns aid distributions at an all-time low.
UN decries Ethiopian attacks that killed 108 in Tigray
Geoffrey York, January 15th, 2022, The Globe and Mail
Drone strikes on non-military targets could qualify as war crime, human-rights officials charge.
Diaspora
Ethiopian-Canadians painfully watch Tigray conflict from afar (VIDEO)
CBC, January 16th, 2022
Ethiopian-Canadians have been painfully watching from afar as Ethiopia’s deadly conflict in the Tigray region between government forces and rebels, leaving thousands dead and more at risk of starvation.
Ethiopian diaspora torn by ethnic tensions in Tigray war
Helina Selemon, January 16th, 2022, The Associated Press
Thousands of miles away from the war in Ethiopia, the ethnic cracks have started to show in an Ethiopian church in Ohio, in a lawsuit between trustees and clergy.
WHO
Blockade creates ‘hell’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray: WHO
Al Jazeera, January 12th, 2022
Tigray is under what the UN calls a de facto blockade that is preventing medicine and food from reaching millions.
Ethiopia
Nobel panel: Abiy has ‘special responsibility’ to end Tigray war
Al Jazeera, January 13th, 2022
The war in Tigray has sparked calls to strip Abiy of the Nobel Prize, but it’s not possible under the award’s statutes.
World News: Ethiopia Repels Rebels, Pledges Peace Talks
Nicholas Bariyo, January 13th, 2022, The Wall Street Journal
In a sharp reversal of fortunes over just a few weeks, Ethiopian government forces have repelled rebel fighters who had appeared poised to seize the country's capital, Addis Ababa, and threaten the government.
Nobel body criticizes Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy over war
Jan M Olsen, January 13th, 2022, The Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, on Thursday issued a very rare admonition to the 2019 winner, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, over the war and humanitarian crisis in his country’s Tigray region.
Humanitarian Aid
Lizzy Davies, January 15th, 2022, The Guardian
Doctors at Tigray’s main hospital are urging the Ethiopian government to allow supplies of insulin to be airlifted into the region, warning that their stocks will run out within a week and that patients with type 1 diabetes are “at serious risk of death”.
Tigray: Aid operations ‘about to grind to a halt’, warns WFP
UN News, January 14th, 2022
Aid and food distribution operations in northern Ethiopia are about “to grind to a halt” amid ongoing fighting, bloodshed and a lack of funding that is making humanitarian access impossible, the UN World Food Programme, WFP, said on Friday.
Tigray Hospital In Urgent Need Of Assistance With Food And Medical Supplies
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, January 16th, 2022, Forbes
The conflict in Ethiopia continues to take new victims. Shortly after it began on November 4, 2020, evidence of mass killings of several hundred people in the western Tigray town of Mai Kadra, started to emerge.
UPDATE 3-Facebook owner to 'assess feasibility' of human rights review on Ethiopia practices
Elizabeth Culliford, January 13th, 2022, Reuters
Jan 13 (Reuters) - Facebook owner Meta Platforms said on Thursday it would "assess the feasibility" of commissioning an independent human rights assessment into its work in Ethiopia, after its oversight board recommended a review of how Facebook and Instagram have been used to spread content that heightens the risk of violence there.