Mass Arrests
Richard Allen Greene, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase, November 8th, 2021, CNN
Witnesses say Tigrayans are being arrested in Addis Ababa in a wave of alleged ethnic targeting by authorities, after a year-long conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
Lucy Kassa, November 8th, 2021, The Globe and Mail
Thousands of Tigrayans have been arbitrarily detained since the civil war began a year ago. One Tigrayan political party estimates 20,000 to 30,000 have been held at detention centres outside the main war zones
Conflict
Al Jazeera, November 14th, 2021
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has arrived in Ethiopia amid growing international efforts for a cessation of hostilities in the country’s war, as African Union (AU) envoy Olusegun Obasanjo expressed hope dialogue can end the conflict but warned “such talks cannot deliver” without an immediate ceasefire.
Al Jazeera, November 11th, 2021
Foreign ministry says Tigrayan forces should exit Amhara and Afar regions, stop attacks and recognise gov’t legitimacy.
David McKenzie, November 6th, 2021
Ethiopia's military is calling on veterans to rejoin the army as two aligned rebel groups threaten the capital, marking the latest sign the government is marshaling its power to defend Addis Ababa.
Eliza Mackintosh, November 5th, 2021, CNN
When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is presiding over a protracted civil war that by many accounts bears the hallmarks of genocide.
Al Jazeera, November 3rd, 2021
UN probe finds evidence of brutal violence that may amount to crimes against humanity, including gang rape by all sides.
Eliza Mackintosh, November 3rd, 2021, CNN
The United Nations has condemned atrocities uncovered in a joint investigation into the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region on Wednesday, a day after the country's government announced a nationwide state of emergency and called on citizens to take up arms against the advance of Tigrayan forces toward its capital.
Declan Walsh & Simon Marks, November 3rd, 2021, The New York Times
In a milestone in the yearlong conflict, the government called on civilians to arm themselves and defend Addis Ababa after Tigrayan forces captured two towns nearby.
Al Jazeera, November 2nd, 2021
Authorities in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, have told residents to prepare to defend their neighbourhoods after Tigrayan forces, who have been fighting the central government for a year, indicated they might advance on the city.
TPLF
Reuters, November 12th, 2021
NAIROBI, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Rebellious Tigrayan forces threatened on Friday to "hunt down" foreigners they said were supporting the Ethiopian government as mercenaries and technical experts in a year-long war.
Katie Polglase, Zeena Saifi, November 10th, 2021, CNN
Fighters from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region have been accused of gang rape and physical assault by 16 women in the neighbouring Amhara region, according to a report released by Amnesty International on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera, November 7th, 2021
Tens of thousands of Ethiopians have pledged to defend the capital from advancing rebels during a pro-military rally where attendees dismissed diplomatic efforts to end the year-long war.
Abdi Latif Dahir and Lara Jakes, November 6th, 2021, The New York Times
The government calls the new coalition, announced in Washington, a ''publicity stunt,'' as intermediaries try to negotiate a peaceful solution to a year of conflict.
Eliza Mackintosh, November 5th, 2021, CNN
Armed groups fighting Ethiopia's central government are swelling in numbers as they advance on the capital Addis Ababa, posing the biggest threat to embattled Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's rule since a bloody year-long conflict began in the country's northern Tigray region a year ago.
Reuters, November 5th, 2021
NAIROBI(Reuters) - Rebellious forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have pushed to within a day's drive of the capital Addis Ababa and are threatening to march on the city of 5 million people.
Canada
Mark Rendell, November 7th, 2021, The Globe and Mail
Worsening security in Ethiopia has prompted Canada to withdraw family members of diplomats and non-essential staff from the country.
Toronto Star, November 7th, 2021
For a rather surreal experience, go to YouTube and check out the speech delivered by Ethiopia’s president, Abiy Ahmed, when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019.
Maan Alhmidi (Canadian Press), November 9th, 2021, CTV News
Advocates from the Tigrayan community in Canada are calling on Ottawa to open its embassy in Addis Ababa to their relatives, who are seeking protection amid an escalating conflict that is feared to have killed thousands.
United States
Michael Crowley, November 15th, 2021, The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is scheduled to depart on Monday for a five-day swing to Africa, where he will lend support for democratic principles and seek to advance diplomacy aimed at preventing Ethiopia from descending into a catastrophic civil war.
Catherine Shoichet, November 9th, 2021, CNN
A radio host says she wakes up every morning wondering if her mom is alive.
Al Jazeera, November 6th, 2021
PM says Ethiopians must be ready to make ‘sacrifices’ to ‘salvage’ country as conflict with Tigrayan forces deepens.
Reuters, November 6th, 2021
NAIROBI, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The United States has ordered non-emergency U.S. government employees in Ethiopia to leave because of armed conflict and civil unrest, its embassy in Addis Ababa said on Saturday.
Jennifer Hansler, November 5th, 2021, CNN
The State Department has established a new task force to oversee its "planning, management and logistics related to events in Ethiopia," a spokesperson confirmed Friday.
Al Jazeera, November 4th, 2021
US says ‘gravely concerned’ about escalating violence and expansion of hostilities, as Tigrayan forces advance.
Jennifer Hansler, November 2nd, 2021, CNN
Ethiopia will lose access to a lucrative US trade program due to human rights violations unless it takes significant steps toward ending the ongoing conflict and alleviating the humanitarian crisis by the start of 2022, senior administration officials said Tuesday.
Sanctions
Reuters, November 13th, 2021
ADDIS ABABA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Eritrea on Saturday condemned sanctions imposed on its military and other Eritrea-based individuals and entities by the United States a day earlier, calling them a continuation of Washington's "misguided and hostile policy".
Al Jazeera, November 12th, 2021
US says presence of Eritrean forces in Ethiopia ‘an impediment’ to ending conflict and increasing humanitarian access.
United Nations
Reuters, November 11th, 2021
ADDIS ABABA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Ethiopian staff working for the United Nations or African Union do not live "in space" and will be punished for any lawbreaking, the government said on Thursday, after the arrest of several U.N. employees for unspecified offences.
Al Jazeera, November 10th, 2021
Ethiopian Human Rights Commission says ‘worried’ about mass arrests of Tigrayans, but gov’t denies ethnic profiling.
Reuters, November 10th, 2021
NAIROBI, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Ethiopian authorities have rounded up high-profile Tigrayans - from a bank CEO to priests - as well as United Nations staff in a mass crackdown on suspected supporters of rebellious northern forces, according to people linked to the detainees.
Rick Gladstone & Declan Walsh, November 9th, 2021, The New York Times
The detentions aggravated the already tense relations between the United Nations and the Ethiopian government over war and hunger in the country’s rebel-held Tigray region.
Al Jazeera, November 9th, 2021
UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo has said the risk of Ethiopia “descending into widening civil war is only too real”, adding that the political repercussions of “intensifying violence in the wider region would be immense, compounding the many crises besetting the Horn of Africa”.
Al Jazeera, November 5th, 2021
Security Council asks parties to refrain ‘from inflammatory hate speech and incitement to violence and divisiveness’.
Al Jazeera, November 2nd, 2021
The joint investigation may be the world’s only official source of information on atrocities in Tigray.
Reuters, November 2nd, 2021
NAIROBI, Nov 3 (Reuters) - A report on abuses committed during war in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region will be published on Wednesday, but a spokesman for the party controlling Tigray said investigators did not visit many sites where violence occurred.
Humanitarian Aid
Al Jazeera, November 15th, 2021
UN aid chief says funds released for emergency operations in the north and as early response to drought in the south.
Al Jazeera, November 12th, 2021
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says Tigrayans across the country were being profiled and arrested by the thousands.
Politics & Security
Awol Allo, November 13th, 2021, International New York Times
Thousands of people killed, more than two million internally displaced and nearly a million facing famine. The conflict in Ethiopia, begun a year ago when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military assault on the Tigray region, is spiraling out of control.
Eliza Mackintosh, November 10th, 2021, CNN
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged to bury his government's enemies "with our blood" last week, in an inflammatory speech marking the one-year anniversary of the war in the country's northern Tigray region.
One Year
Al Jazeera, November 4th, 2021
Ethnic Tigrayan members of Ethiopian army arbitrarily detained and held without charge for months, relatives say.
Al Jazeera, November 4th, 2021
Kenya’s President Kenyatta says fighting must stop as Ugandan leader Museveni calls for meeting to discuss conflict.
Zecharias Zelalem, November 4th, 2021, Al Jazeera
On November 4, 2020, the Ethiopian military was deployed to Tigray to squash forces loyal to the northern region’s governing party, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), in response to what the government said was an attack on federal army camps.