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Ethiopia: Ethiopia Vows To Seize Airports, Facilities In Tigray As AU Calls For Truce
RFI, 17 October 2022
Ethiopia's government has vowed to seize control of airports and other federal facilities in the country's Tigray region, a day after the African Union appealed for a ceasefire. Read more »
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Ethiopia: Civilians in Tigray Region at Heightened Risk
HRW, 18 October 2022
International Community Should Act Now to Protect Population Read more »
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Ethiopia: WHO Head Warns Urgent Action Needed to Prevent Tigray 'Genocide'
RFI, 20 October 2022
Action must be taken immediately to prevent "genocide" in Ethiopia's Tigray region, World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from WHO headquarters… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Fighting Must End, Urges Guterres, Amid 'Staggering' Level Of Need
UN News, 17 October 2022
Fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia is "spiralling out of control", and there is no military solution to end nearly two years of brutal conflict which has left tens of… Read more »
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Eritrea: How Eritrea Fuels the War in Ethiopia, Making Peace More Unlikely
DW, 15 October 2022
The country on the horn of Africa has apparently deployed a massive contingent of its own troops to Ethiopia's Tigray. This could torpedo further peace negotiations. International… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Chairman Menendez Statement on Worsening Situation in Conflict in Northern Ethiopia
United States Senate, 15 October 2022
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the below statement calling for an immediate ceasefire in northern Ethiopia and… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Western Countries 'Profoundly Concerned' About War in Tigray
Addis Standard, 12 October 2022
A group of western countries issued a new statement of concern at "the escalation of the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in northern Ethiopia." Read more »
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The Conversation Africa, 16 October 2022
The Ethio-Tigray war started on 4 November 2020. For almost two years, the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea - along with Amhara regional forces and militia - have waged war… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Intensifying Military Operations in Northern Ethiopia
State Department, 14 October 2022
The United States is deeply concerned over reports of increasing violence, loss of life, indiscriminate targeting of civilians, and destruction in the conflict in northern… Read more »
Global Alarm As Ethiopia Conflict Escalates and Mediation Falters
The Ethiopian government has said it will seize control of airports and other federal facilities in the country's northern Tigray region, a day after the African Union appealed for a ceasefire. At the end of August 2022, a five-month ceasefire between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan separatist forces broke down, leading to fresh clashes. The conflicting parties were supposed to meet in South Africa for negotiations mediated by the special representative of the African Union (AU) and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, but the talks did not happen.
Both the government in Addis Ababa and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which leads the government in the northern Ethiopian region, had agreed to meet. The talks did not take place.
A group of Western nations has issued a statement of concern at "the escalation of the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in northern Ethiopia." Together, the United States, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK and Germany have condemned the resumed war in Tigray.
In a separate statement, the U.S. State Department called on Ethiopia and the Tigray region to suspend fighting and to return to the negotiating table. "We condemn the escalating involvement of Eritrean troops in northern Ethiopia." the statement said. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Robert Menendez called for an immediate ceaserfire and urged the Biden administration to sanction those persons found to be committing war crimes in the conflict.
InFocus
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Diplomats have said that African Union-sponsored peace talks between Ethiopia's federal government and Tigrayan rebels - that had been planned for the weekend of October 8, 2022 - ... Read more »
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The Tigrayan presidency has said that Eritrea has launched a "full-scale offensive" along its border with northern Ethiopia. Eritrea is bordered by Ethiopia to th Read more »
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Possible ceasefire talks are in doubt after airstrikes have reportedly killed ten people in the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region. Earlier, Tigray's leadership Read more »
An armed member of a local militia watches the hills for Tigrayan fighters (file photo).
