The Horrors of the Hidden War: Inside the Tigray conflict in EthiopiaIn Ethiopia where the conflict between Ethiopia’s national defence forces and Eritrean troops on one side, and fighters from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has been raging since last November, thousands of women have been raped and tortured.
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Tigray conflict: the testimonies of alleged war crimesEthiopia’s leader has admitted for the first time that atrocities have been committed in the northern region of Tigray, claiming that soldiers who raped women or committed other war crimes would be held responsible.
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Tigray conflict: inside a camp for displaced people as millions fleeIn Ethiopia, the humanitarian crisis is deepening in the northern region of Tigray. Millions have been displaced since the war between the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrean troops on the one hand, and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front began last November. Today the aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres reported that one of its teams had…
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MSF team report witnessing Ethiopian soldiers shooting civiliansA team from Medecins sans Frontieres has today reported witnessing Ethiopian soldiers killing civilians in Tigray. We have been speaking to Karline Kleijer, MSF’s emergency coordinator, and began by asking her to describe what her colleagues had seen.
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Hopes UK will ‘rethink’ foreign aid cut amid Tigray conflict, says UN’s Sir Mark LowcockThis evening the issue of Tigray was raised in parliament, and the UK government said that it would push for the UN and international community to carry out a credible investigation into the atrocities. We spoke with the UN’s humanitarian chief Sir Mark Lowcock and began by asking him whether aid agencies are able to…
Horror and unspeakable crimes in the war in TigrayOur Africa Correspondent Jamal Osman gained rare access to Tigray and spoke to women who told him their accounts of soldiers using rape as a weapon of war.