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Ethiopia: Govt, Rebel Group Blame Each Other for No Aid Reaching Tigray
VOA, 31 March 2022
Ethiopian authorities and rebels in the Tigray region are accusing each other of blocking aid deliveries to Tigray that had been agreed to a week ago. The ongoing fighting comes as… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Govt Fails to Block UN Funding for Human Rights Investigation
VOA, 1 April 2022
Ethiopia on Thursday failed to block the United Nations from funding an international committee that will investigate human rights violations by all parties in the nation's recent… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Govt's "Humanitarian Truce" and Its Cycle of Empty Promises
African Arguments, 30 March 2022
Addis Ababa has promised, and failed, to end the blockade before in moments of rising international pressure. Read more »
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Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Tigray Region Still Waits for Aid Despite a Govt Truce
DW, 30 March 2022
Aid convoys have yet to reach Ethiopia's war-ravaged Tigray region almost a week after the government announced a humanitarian truce. Read more »
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Addis Standard, 29 March 2022
In a statement released on 28 March, Tigrayan authorities said despite humanitarian truce over the past four days, "no humanitarian aid has arrived in Tigray," and blamed Ethiopian… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Security Threats Thwart Tigray Relief After Government Truce
The New Humanitarian, 29 March 2022
Security threats are preventing aid groups from bringing relief supplies into Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, even as the government has declared a unilateral truce following 17… Read more »
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Ethiopia: U.S. Senate Committe Approves Ethiopia Peace Act with Overwhelming Bipartisan Support
United States Senate, 29 March 2022
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by SFRC Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and State and Foreign… Read more »
Ethiopia Govt, Tigray Region In Blame Game Over Aid
Days after announcing a humanitarian truce, the Ethiopia government accused the Tigray People's Liberation Front of blocking trucks carrying critical food aid to Tigray.
More than 40 trucks were due to depart from Semera, capital of the Afar region. But a government statement said the trucks had not left because Abala Road has been closed by militia.
Writing on Twitter, Kindeya Gebrehiwot, a member of the Tigray regional government, accused Ethiopian authorities in Addis Ababa of deception and criticised the international community for welcoming the truce without ensuring the Ethiopian government would follow through.
Meanwhile, Tracey Jacobson, the U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia, visited the Afar region on March 31, 2022, where a meeting was held with Afar regional president Awol Arba and community members to discuss fighting, which has spilled over from Tigray into Afar.
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The Ethiopian government issued a declaration of humanitarian truce in the Tigray regional state effective from March 24, 2022. Addis Standard reported that the government Read more »
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This statement was made by the World Health Organization chief Tedros Ghebreyesus during a briefing where the Read more »
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The UN and human rights groups have warned that seven months of fighting has hampered food security in Tigray region, with a real risk of famine (file photo).
