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Ethiopian troops were the backbone of a peacekeeping force in a disputed Sudanese border region More than 500 UN peacekeepers from Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region have refused to return home, citing fears for their safety and highlighting deepening ethnic fissures as they request political asylum in Sudan. Until last year, Ethiopian forces accounted for the...

By MARY WAMBUI Ethiopian authorities are fighting a new image crisis amid allegations that the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is trying to conceal evidence of wrongdoing by its forces in Tigray. Last week, Addis Ababa failed to block a budgetary approval for a team of independent UN experts tasked to look into acts...

Gelmo Dawit Ethiopia’s government has said it will carefully examine a scathing report by international rights groups that accuses its military and allied forces of gross rights abuses in Tigray region. But it also poured doubt on the report, which alleges ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, as having “ethnic undertones” and being...

AFP/ Thousands of those who fled Tigray went over the border to camps in Sudan Tigrayans are being targeted in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in part of Ethiopia’s conflict-hit northern Tigray region, a joint investigation has found. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuse officials and security forces from neighbouring Amhara of committing...