Tigray Region

• 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
  
• Canada must stop aid to Ethiopia in light of human rights violations: advocates

  Ottawa should stop sending millions of dollars in aid to the Ethiopian government and push for a no-fly zone and delivering air-dropped food to the people of the Tigray region.

  World

  Jun 29, 2021
  
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• 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
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• ‘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
• Over 25,300 Ethiopian refugees fleeing Tigray region have reached Sudan, UN says

  More than 5,000 refugees arrived in Sudan's border provinces of Kassala and al-Qadarif on Sunday, the highest single-day number of arrivals since the start of the conflict in Tigray earlier this month, the UNHCR said.

  Politics

  Nov 16, 2020
• Ethiopia’s deadly conflict spills over border as thousands flee to Sudan

  The government of Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appeared to reject international pleas for dialogue, instead seeking to use force to arrest the leaders of a regional government it regards as illegal and destroy its well-stocked arsenal.

  Politics

  Nov 10, 2020