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10/18/2022 11:01:28 PM
The African Union pledged in 2016 to “silence the guns” by the end of 2020, an ambitious agenda of ending armed conflicts on the continent. Just two months before that deadline, the deadliest war in years erupted in Ethiopia.
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10/18/2022 12:52:00 PM
Tigrayan rebels said Tuesday that Ethiopian and Eritrean forces had taken control of the strategic city of Shire in northwestern Tigray.
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10/17/2022 11:13:46 PM
UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the situation in Ethiopia was "spiralling out of control" as fighting raged in the north of the country and the government vowed to seize control of airports and other sites in Tigray.
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10/17/2022 1:53:44 PM
Ethiopia's government on Monday recommitted to peace talks over Tigray but did not address African Union appeals for a ceasefire, vowing instead to carry out "defensive measures" including seizing airports and other federal facilities in the region.
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10/16/2022 5:47:56 PM
The African Union on Sunday called on the warring parties in the nearly two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia to "recommit" to peace talks, as violence intensifies in the Tigray region.
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10/15/2022 6:04:17 PM
The International Rescue Committee said Saturday one of its aid workers was among three civilians killed in an attack in Tigray where Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have launched an offensive.
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10/7/2022 4:27:35 PM
African Union-sponsored peace talks to resolve Ethiopia's two-year-long Tigray conflict will not take place as planned this weekend, diplomatic sources told The Associated Press on Friday.
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10/6/2022 10:42:52 AM
Babies in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for over 5 million people, according to the most sweeping study yet of how mothers and children are suffering.
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10/5/2022 7:09:19 PM
Ethiopia's government said Wednesday it has accepted an African Union invitation to hold peace talks with Tigrayan rebels after a flare-up in fighting in the nearly two-year war in the country's north.
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10/5/2022 11:01:35 AM
The leader of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region has been invited to peace talks in South Africa this weekend as part of a pan-African effort to end one of the world's most overlooked wars, according to a letter seen by The Associated Press.
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10/4/2022 12:10:16 PM
Authorities in Ethiopia's rebel-held Tigray region said they had withdrawn fighters from occupied parts of a neighbouring region to counter a major offensive unfolding to the north.
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9/30/2022 4:49:28 PM
An airstrike in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed at least five civilians earlier this week as the revived war continues, according to humanitarian workers and an internal document seen by The Associated Press.
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9/22/2022 10:26:17 PM
UN-backed investigators said Thursday they have turned up evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Ethiopian government forces, Tigray forces and Eritrea's military _ including rape, murder and pillage _ over the nearly two-year war centering on Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
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9/20/2022 9:16:57 PM
Ethiopia's ambassador to Geneva on Tuesday rejected a report by UN investigators that accused Addis Ababa of possible crimes against humanity in Tigray, including using starvation as a weapon of war.
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9/20/2022 5:00:11 PM
Tigrayan authorities say Eritrea has launched a full-scale offensive along the country's border with northern Ethiopia in what appears to be an escalation of last month's renewal of fighting.
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9/19/2022 9:06:05 PM
UN investigators said Monday they believed Ethiopia's government was behind ongoing crimes against humanity in Tigray, and warned the resumption of the conflict there increased the risk of "further atrocity crimes".
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9/18/2022 10:45:23 AM
Eritrean authorities have called on their armed forces to mobilise in response to the renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, the British and Canadian governments said.
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9/14/2022 8:26:10 PM
The Ethiopian government is "committed" to the AU-led peace process aimed at ending the near two-year conflict in the north, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
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9/14/2022 12:44:51 PM
Ten people were killed in a second day of air strikes on Ethiopia's Tigray region Wednesday, hospital officials said, in attacks that came after authorities there expressed readiness for a ceasefire.
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9/14/2022 10:29:14 AM
Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray was hit by an air strike on Wednesday, local officials said, its second bombing in as many days which came shortly after authorities in the rebel-held region said they were ready for a ceasefire.
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