Adolu Agency | Al-Fashqa is claimed by both Sudan and Ethiopia KHARTOUM, Sudan | The Sudanese army is carrying out a military push to take control of Barkhat, the last location in al-Fashqa that is still under Ethiopia’s control, local media reported on Tuesday. Sudan Tribune newspaper, citing military sources, said clashes were underway since Monday […]
READOUT | OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON | MARCH 2, 2021 The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to emphasize the United States’ concern about the humanitarian and human rights crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Noting the growing number of credible […]
Cairo – Sputnik | The Foreign Ministers of Egypt and Sudan considered that Ethiopia’s implementation of the second phase of filling the Renaissance Dam is a direct threat to the water security of the two countries. Today, Tuesday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Sudanese counterpart Maryam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi discussed a number of ways […]
House Foreign Affairs Press Release: McCaul Responds to Reports of Ethnic Cleansing and Massacres of Civilians in Tigray Region
Press Release House Foreign Affairs Committee 02.27.21 | Media Contact: 202-225-5021 Washington, DC – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement in response to reports of ethnic cleansing and mass violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. “The horrors detailed in the reports coming out of the Tigray region are incredibly concerning and I am […]
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, forced removals and displacements, sexual assaults, and other extremely serious human rights violations and abuses by several […]
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 the homes,” said Gebru Habtom, a farmer in his 40s from the village of Debre Harmaz in Ethiopia. “Then […]
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 imagery analysis shows evidence consistent with new burial sites Read Full Report >>> Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray state systematically killed hundreds of unarmed […]
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 their request due to fears of retribution. Abraham began burying the bodies in the morning […]
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. 26, 2021 Updated Feb. 27, 2021, 12:43 a.m. ET NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopian officials […]
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 to war crimes and crimes against humanity. This is another harrowing reminder of the violence that civilians in […]