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8/24/2022 1:34:25 PM
Fighting erupted between government forces and Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia on Wednesday, with the warring sides blaming each other for shattering a five-month-old truce.
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8/24/2022 10:25:05 AM
Tigray rebels accused Ethiopian government forces and allied militias of launching a "large-scale offensive" against southern Tigray on Wednesday.
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8/18/2022 8:04:32 PM
The Ethiopian government on Thursday accused Tigrayan rebels of lacking any interest in peace talks to try to end the devastating 21-month war in the north of the country.
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Africa
8/18/2022 12:49:38 PM
Ethiopia's government is criticizing as ``unethical'' the statement by the World Health Organization's director-general that the crisis in the country's Tigray region is ``the worst disaster on Earth'' and his assertion that the lack of attention from global leaders may be due to Tigrayans' skin color.
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8/17/2022 8:28:59 PM
The head of the World Health Organization described the persistent crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray region as ``the worst disaster on Earth'' and wondered aloud Wednesday if the reason global leaders have not responded was due to ``the color of the skin of the people in Tigray.''
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Africa
7/30/2022 9:50:01 AM
The new US envoy for the Horn of Africa arrived in Ethiopia on Friday on a mission to advance peace efforts between the government and Tigrayan rebels.
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7/28/2022 6:47:51 PM
A senior Ethiopian official says the government is ready for talks with rival forces from the country's northern Tigray region ``anytime, anywhere'' and without preconditions, in a notable break from the past.
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7/18/2022 4:59:03 PM
Tigrayan rebels have set up a team to negotiate with the Ethiopian government, a spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front told AFP on Monday, 20 months after war broke out in the northern region.
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7/12/2022 2:36:16 PM
The Ethiopian government said on Tuesday it was tasking a UN agency with helping to rebuild infrastructure in Tigray that was destroyed in the conflict between rebels and federal forces.
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Africa
7/6/2022 9:04:06 PM
Ethiopian lawmakers decided on Wednesday to set up a committee to investigate "inhumane" acts against civilians, after reports of massacres in a restive area in the west of the country.
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7/5/2022 8:34:40 PM
An Ethiopian rebel group on Tuesday denied accusations it was responsible for a massacre of civilians in the restive far west of the country, and pointed the finger of blame instead at government-allied militias.
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Africa
7/4/2022 7:41:00 PM
The Tigray conflict in Ethiopia's north is overshadowing a "persistent cycle of violence" against civilians by security forces and armed groups in the Oromia region, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
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Africa
6/23/2022 8:54:14 PM
Ethiopia on Thursday described fuel shortages in the war-wracked Tigray region as a "myth" and accused Tigrayan rebels of seeking to launch a new offensive.
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Africa
6/21/2022 9:36:46 PM
The European Union says Ethiopia's government must reconnect its northern Tigray region to the world as a yearlong partial blockade has left food aid for almost 1 million hungry people stuck in warehouses without the fuel to deliver it.
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6/21/2022 8:14:20 PM
The United States on Tuesday voiced revulsion over reports of hundreds of deaths in mass killings in Ethiopia as it renewed a call for a peaceful resolution of differences.
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Region
6/19/2022 12:25:46 PM
For the first time since war erupted in Ethiopia's north 19 months ago, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has signalled he's open to negotiate with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).
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6/14/2022 5:40:09 PM
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday spoke for the first time about the possibility of peace negotiations with Tigrayan rebels, who have been locked in a 19-month war with federal forces.
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Africa
6/5/2022 6:57:34 PM
Once a key ally of Ethiopia's federal government in its deadly war in the country's northern Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara region is now experiencing government-led mass arrests and disappearances of activists, journalists and other perceived critics.
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5/16/2022 9:02:16 PM
Ethiopia has expelled The Economist's correspondent from he East African country, accusing him of taking a "misguided approach" to journalism, the weekly magazine said Monday.
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4/29/2022 5:51:15 PM
Ethiopia on Friday rejected as "lies" claims of withdrawal by Tigrayan rebels from a region neighbouring war-wracked Tigray and accused them of trying to "impede" the delivery of aid.
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