More than two million children in Tigray do not have access to food, water and safety and may have been displaced. While there is a severe humanitarian situation regarding 100.000 Eritrean refugees in Tigray; full humanitarian access has not been given.
The armed clashes along the border between Sudan and Ethiopia are the latest twist in a decades-old history of rivalry between the two countries, though it is rare for the two armies to fight one another directly over territory.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, the electoral board said Friday, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed seeks to quell political and ethnic violence in several regions.
The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday said it has deployed humanitarian assessment teams to the troubled Tigray region in northern Ethiopia.
The meeting between the authorities of the two countries to demarcate the land border came a week after the attack on a Sudanese army patrol by Ethiopian forces on December 15. The failure of talks may lead to more clashes
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday said his country is providing more than $18 million to Ethiopia in support of the country’s rehabilitation activities.Secretary Pompeo said the donation is extended in humanitarian assistance to help refugees and host communities affected by the law enforcement operation in Tigray region.
While some of the detained were supposedly "involved in the security crisis", others had been arrested as they allegedly failed to fulfil their responsibilities
Clashes that erupted in Ethiopia earlier this month between two of the country’s largest ethnic groups have killed hundreds of people and displaced thousands more, the government said.
Livestock are dying in parts of Ethiopia that are overwhelmingly reliant on their milk as deepening drought pushes up the number of districts in need of life-saving aid by 19 percent, according to a report.
Weeks-long clashes between Ethiopian security forces and protesters from the country’s largest ethnic community have resulted in scores of fatalities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.
Officials and aid groups in Ethiopia have voiced alarm over the food crisis caused by a crippling drought plaguing the Horn of Africa state, saying over 10 million people, mostly children, need emergency food aid by January.