Tigray

• Canada withdrawing some staff from Ethiopia amid tensions in Tigray region

  Global Affairs Canada is urging people to consider leaving Ethiopia if they can do so safely.

  Canada

  Nov 7, 2021
  
• Ethiopia conflict brews as U.S. special envoy arrives for ceasefire talks

  The year-long conflict in Ethiopia has killed thousands of people, forced more than two million more from their homes, and left 400,000 people in Tigray facing famine.

  World

  Nov 4, 2021
  
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• Efforts to calm rising violence in Ethiopia grow urgent as conflict enters 2nd year

  Rival Tigray forces seized key cities in recent days and linked up with another armed group, leading the government to declare a national state of emergency.

  World

  Nov 4, 2021
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• Ethiopia’s PM vows to bury enemy forces ‘with our blood’ amid state of emergency

  Ethiopia broke out into war with Tigrayan forces one year ago Nov. 3, and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Wednesday that he vows to finish the conflict.

  World

  Nov 3, 2021
• Canada, other G7 nations condemn Ethiopia violence in Tigray region

  They denounced reports of mass civilian killings, sexual and gender-based violence, and the forced displacement of thousands of local residents and Eritrean refugees living there.

  World

  Apr 2, 2021
• Ethiopian army to move in on Tigray capital as surrender ultimatum runs out, PM says

  The statement Thursday by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office means tanks and other weaponry can now close in on the city of some half-million people.

  World

  Nov 26, 2020
• ‘We just ran’: Women, children flee gunfire as violence grows in Ethiopia

  Civilians are caught in the middle of what some experts describe as a conflict akin to an inter-state war, so heavily armed is each side.

  World

  Nov 24, 2020
• Leader of Ethiopia’s Tigray region says troops fired missiles at neighbouring Eritrea

  The United States strongly condemned the Tigray region's ``unjustifiable attacks against Eritrea ... and its efforts to internationalize the conflict.''

  World

  Nov 15, 2020
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• Ethiopia’s Tigray region bombs airports in neighbouring area

  Fighting that erupted in the northern Tigray region on Nov. 4 has reportedly killed hundreds on both the federal government and regional government sides and sent well over 17,000 refugees fleeing into neighbouring Sudan.

  World

  Nov 14, 2020