UN: Situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray now ‘extremely alarming
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Life for civilians in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region has become “extremely alarming” as hunger grows and fighting remains an obstacle to reaching millions of people with aid, the United Nations says in a new…
US urges Ethiopia’s PM to allow ‘immediate’ help to Tigray
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a call with Ethiopia’s prime minister on Thursday expressed “grave concern” about the crisis in the embattled Tigray region and urged “immediate, full and unhindered humanitarian…
There Is a Grave Humanitarian Need.’ U.N. Presses for Access to Ethiopia’s Embattled Tigray Region
TIME — The U.N. Security Council discussed the grave humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region on Wednesday as senior U.N. officials pressed the government for access to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of people that…
U.N. warns Tigray conflict could spark broader destablization in Ethiopia
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region could trigger broader destablization in the country, U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock told the Security Council on Wednesday as he warned that a dire humanitarian situation in the north…
Situation Report EEPA HORN No. 77 – 05 February 2021
Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peace building, refugee protection and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published…
Situation Report EEPA HORN No. 76 – 04 February 2021
Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peace building, refugee protection and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published…
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam generates grand hostility with Egypt
Daily Maverik 168 | Can SA help to defuse the tensions growing over Ethiopia’s giant project on the Nile? Egypt fears it will cut water flow, on which it depends. But Sudan and Ethiopia need the power. The clock is ticking.
South Africa has…
As Ethiopia fills its Nile dam, regional rivalries overflow
The Christian Monitor | When African Union-mediated talks between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan over a Nile River dam broke down yet again last month, it didn’t mark a new disagreement over sharing vital water resources.
Rather, it was a case…
Refugee Camps in Ethiopia Appear to Have Been Systematically Destroyed
VICE | Satellite photos show military actors at the camps right after they were razed; the damage is far more extensive than previously reported.
Two refugee camps in Ethiopia’s Tigray region were deliberately razed to the ground in attacks…
Demand full humanitarian access into Tigray
Amnesty International | According to the United Nations, 2.3 million people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are in immediate need of life-saving assistance. But humanitarian access has been difficult due to restrictions and slow processes by Ethiopian…