Famine & Humanitarian Aid
Maggie Fick, August 20th, 2021, Reuters
NAIROBI, Aug 20 (Reuters) - For the first time in nine months of war in Ethiopia's Tigray region, aid workers will run out of food this week to deliver to millions of people who are going hungry, the head of the U.S. government's humanitarian agency said, blaming the government for restricting access.
BBC News, August 20th, 2021
The US international development agency has blamed the Ethiopian government for a shortage of humanitarian aid in the country's conflict-torn Tigray region.
Addis Standard, August 19th,2021
Addis Abeba, August 19/2021 – The latest UN report on the humanitarian crisis in Tigray said that “a fraction of the required humanitarian cargo to meet the mounting needs,” was reaching Tigray where the situation “remains unpredictable and volatile, while movement of Tigray Forces in Amhara and Afar continues.”
Detentions and Discrimination
Human Rights Watch, August 18th, 2021
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian authorities since late June 2021 have arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, and committed other abuses against ethnic Tigrayans in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The authorities should immediately account for Tigrayans’ forcibly disappeared, release those being held without credible evidence of a crime, and end all discriminatory treatment.
Nicholas Bariyo, August 11th, 2021, The Wall Street Journal
Ethiopian authorities have launched reprisals against ethnic Tigrayans across the country, arresting hundreds and accusing members of the minority group of supporting rebels who have been locked in a bloody war with the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
International Intervention
Al Jazeera, August 18th, 2021
Turkish leader also tells Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed that Ankara is willing to mediate in Sudan border dispute.
Al Jazeera, August 13th, 2021
Jeffrey Feltman’s trip comes as humanitarian organisations warn of a continued crisis as battles rage in Tigray.
Robbie Gramer, August 11th, 2021, Foreign Policy
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed last week rebuffed a request to meet face to face with a top Biden administration official to address the country’s civil war and worsening humanitarian crisis in the Tigray region, dealing a blow to U.S. efforts to tamp down a conflict that threatens to fuel famine and destabilize the wider Horn of Africa.
Gender Based Violence
Nima Elbagir, Lauren Kent, August 12th, 2021, CNN
Troops and militias aligned with the Ethiopian government have subjected hundreds of women and girls to sexual violence in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
Cara Anna, August 11th, Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Dozens of women have described shocking sexual assaults by Ethiopian soldiers and allied forces in the country’s Tigray conflict, says an Amnesty International report published Wednesday, and its researcher calls it striking how the perpetrators appeared to act without fear of punishment from their commanders.
Al Jazeera, August 11th, 2021
‘Severity and scale’ of sexual crimes Ethiopian and Eritrean troops committed amount to war crimes, rights body says.
Conflict
Al Jazeera, August 11th, 2021
The alliance brings together the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and the Oromo Liberation Army.
Reuters, August 11th, 2021
NAIROBI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Forces from Ethiopia's rebellious Tigray region said on Wednesday they were in talks to forge a military alliance with insurgents from Ethiopia's most populous region, Oromiya, heaping pressure on the central government in Addis Ababa.
Ayenat Mersie, August 10th, 2021, Reuters
NAIROBI, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's government on Tuesday urged citizens to join the fight against resurgent Tigrayan forces now pushing beyond their own region in a nine-month-old war that has sparked a major refugee crisis.
Hilary Matfess, August 15th, 2021, LawFare
On June 28, the Ethiopian government declared a unilateral cease-fire in the war in Tigray. There was optimism that the cease-fire would help draw down the conflict, which erupted in November 2020.