Ethiopia

Thousands of displaced women and children fleeing Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict have found refuge in the country’s capital Addis Ababa.

We spoke to Getachew Reda, President of the Tigray Interim Regional Administration, and began by asking him about the current humanitarian situation.

It’s already been ravaged by war. Now Ethiopia’s Tigray region is on the verge of famine – with at least two million people at risk of starvation and death. Elders and international aid agencies are comparing the crisis to the mid-1980s – when war and drought caused a famine that killed up to a million…

In northern Ethiopia, after months of brutal fighting the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front have reached a truce.

We spoke to Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, who is chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

The World Food Programme is one of the main providers of food in countries suffering famine and acute hunger. 

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Over a year into Ethiopia’s civil war, one of the federal government’s top military commanders says they’re planning on entering Mekelle, the capital of the rebel Tigray region, to – “eliminate” the last of their enemy. US diplomats flew into Addis Ababa last week, hoping to broker a ceasefire in a conflict which has seen…

More details have emerged about an airstrike in northern Ethiopia that killed more than 50 people and left dozens more injured.

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We spoke to the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani.

We spoke to Vicki Huddleston, the former acting US Ambassador to Ethiopia.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says his soldiers are pushing back rebel forces in a drive to reclaim territory captured by Trigrayan troops. 

While Ethiopia’s conflict rages in the north of the country, another enemy is looking to exploit the situation in the east. 

The United Nations is demanding answers from the government of Ethiopia over the detention of 70 of their truck drivers contracted to deliver aid, describing the move as “a de facto humanitarian blockade”.