US SECRETARY OF STATE: Atrocities in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region
PRESS STATEMENT | ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE | FEBRUARY 27, 2021
The United States is gravely concerned by reported atrocities and the overall deteriorating situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. We strongly condemn the killings,…
VICE: Razed In Ethnic Cleansing Campaign
VICE | Survivor testimony and satellite imagery in Ethiopia’s Tigray region provide evidence of wide-ranging destruction by Eritrean soldiers.
By Zecharias Zelalem | Feb 27 2021
“They set our crops on fire, then they started burning…
Amnesty: Eritrean troops’ massacre of hundreds of Axum civilians may amount to crime against humanity
Amnesty International | 26 February 2021 |
Amnesty International interviewed 41 survivors and witnesses to mass killings in November
Troops carried out extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate shelling and widespread looting
Satellite…
CNN: Massacre in the mountains
CNN | They thought they'd be safe at a church. Then the soldiers arrived
By Bethlehem Feleke, Eliza Mackintosh, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Katie Polglase | February 27, 2021
All of the witnesses to this massacre have been given pseudonyms at…
NYT: Ethiopia’s War Leads to Ethnic Cleansing in Tigray Region, U.S. Report Says
An internal U.S. government report found that people in Tigray are being driven from their homes in a war begun by Ethiopia, an American ally — posing President Biden’s first major test in Africa.
The New York Times | Declan Walsh | Published Feb.…
EU: Tigray conflict – Joint Statement by HR/VP Borrell and Commissioner Lenarčič on massacres in Axum
EU | Brussels, 26/02/2021 - 14:10, UNIQUE ID: 210226_7
Amnesty International issued a report today on atrocities that took place in Axum, Ethiopia, in November 2020. The report concludes that indiscriminate shelling and mass execution may amount…
EU envoy says Ethiopia in ‘denial’ over Tigray
devEx | When it comes to the conflict in northern Ethiopia, the federal government in Addis Ababa has no common understanding of events and is in “denial” over the scale of the problem, said Pekka Haavisto, European Union envoy, on Tuesday.
With…
U.N. Report Accuses Blackwater Founder Erik Prince of Libya Weapons Ban Violations, Diplomat Says
WSJ | Jared Malsin* | Mr. Prince likely to be referred to the U.N.’s Sanctions Committee, which could order a freeze on his assets or a travel ban
DUBAI—A United Nations report accuses Blackwater founder Erik Prince of assisting in violations…
Sudan and Ethiopia trade barbs over border dispute
Al Jazeera | Clashes erupted last year between both forces over Al-Fashqa, an area of fertile land settled by Ethiopian farmers.
Sudan has accused Ethiopia of an “unforgivable insult” in its sharpest statement yet since a decades-old border…
UN says malnutrition ‘very critical’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations says Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region faces a “very critical malnutrition situation” as vast rural areas where many people fled during three months of fighting remain out of reach of aid.
The…