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1/30/2024 2:46:56 PM
Only a small fraction of needy people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region are receiving food aid, according to an aid memo seen by The Associated Press, more than one month after aid agencies resumed deliveries of grain following a lengthy pause over theft.
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10/3/2023 9:51:53 PM
The European Union and Ethiopia inked a 650 million euro development deal on Tuesday during a visit by a top EU official aimed at improving ties following the end of a bloody two-year war in the Tigray region.
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9/26/2023 2:45:48 PM
Researchers say they have verified 1,329 deaths from hunger in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region since a cease-fire ended a two-year conflict there in November.
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9/19/2023 4:45:15 PM
U.N.-backed human rights experts say war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace accord signed nearly a year ago to end a conflict that engulfed the country’s northern Tigray region. The violence has left at least 10,000 people affected by rape and other sexual violence — mostly women and girls, they found.
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7/5/2023 6:59:54 PM
The number of people diagnosed with severe malnutrition in Ethiopia's war-scarred Tigray region has increased sharply, with conditions set to worsen following a recent halt to food aid, the United Nations said in its latest update.
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6/11/2023 8:57:21 PM
The Ethiopian government on Saturday criticised a move by two major aid organisations to halt the sending of food assistance to the country after discovering it was being diverted from those who need it.
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5/23/2023 7:42:52 PM
Thousands of people displaced by the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region staged protests Tuesday demanding to be able to return home and calling for the withdrawal of "invading forces", witnesses and local television said.
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5/2/2023 11:59:52 AM
The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to four humanitarian workers.
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5/1/2023 6:43:48 PM
The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to four humanitarian workers
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4/27/2023 7:32:52 PM
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday the head of his ruling Prosperity Party in the northern region of Amhara had been assassinated.
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4/4/2023 10:21:45 PM
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has appealed for urgent funding to respond to growing humanitarian calamities in drought and conflict-affected parts of Ethiopia.
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3/28/2023 7:12:46 PM
Ethiopia’s prime minister said Tuesday his administration is attempting talks with an outlawed rebel group operating mainly in the restive Oromia region.
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3/23/2023 12:29:24 PM
The Ethiopian government said Thursday it has appointed a senior official in the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) as head of the interim Tigray regional government after a peace deal ended a brutal two-year conflict.
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3/20/2023 7:17:24 PM
The United States has concluded that Ethiopian and Eritrean troops as well as rebels committed war crimes during the brutal two-year conflict, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, days after he visited Addis Ababa.
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Africa
1/20/2023 6:46:08 PM
Witnesses in some towns across Ethiopia’s Tigray region say troops from neighboring Eritrea have started withdrawing in large convoys, a potentially significant development after a devastating conflict in the region ended late last year.
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12/28/2022 8:00:44 PM
Families embraced and wept in emotional reunions Wednesday after the first commercial flight in 18 months between Ethiopia's capital city and the war-torn Tigray region to the north.
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12/26/2022 3:10:20 PM
A high-level Ethiopian team was on its way Monday to the capital of the rebel-held Tigray region for talks on implementing a peace deal to end over two years of conflict.
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Africa
12/7/2022 7:07:08 PM
Basic services like electricity and telecoms have been restored to key parts of Ethiopia's Tigray region following the signing of a cease-fire deal a month ago, but most areas are still cut off from the world.
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World
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12/7/2022 12:07:15 PM
The capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region has been reconnected to the national power grid after more than a year of cuts caused by war, the electricity operator said on Tuesday.
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12/3/2022 9:04:39 PM
The UN's World Health Organization said Friday it still did not have unfettered access to bring humanitarian aid into Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray region, one month after the ceasefire.
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