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Anger over violence that UN says could amount to war crimes drives recruitment in Tigray Jason Burke  Ethiopian troops and their allies in the restive northern province of Tigray face a growing insurgency fuelled by a series of massacres and other violence targeting civilians. The country’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, launched a military offensive four months...

 The conflict in Tigray, the northern region of Ethiopia, has mostly been unfolding under a media blackout since early November. Thousands of civilians have likely died as a result of the crisis. Maria Gerth-Niculescu They were sobbing silently, waiting for their turn at the end of a dark corridor — a dozen petrified women, seeking...

CYRUS OMBATI The US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke Wednesday with Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo to discuss the longstanding and important strategic partnership between the United States and Kenya.  He urged Kenyan leadership in working with the United States on the UN Security Council and in other venues to address the...

Ethiopia has claimed that an Amnesty report painting a dark picture of the Tigray crisis supports misinformation. Yet the country has tried to keep international journalists far from witnesses and out of the region.  Silja Fröhlich The stream of worrying news from Tigray, Ethiopia, does not stop. A report published last week by Amnesty International (AI) led to strong...

By Samuel Gebre and Simon Marks Eritrean troops massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians in the northern Ethiopian town of Axum in November last year, killings that constituted war crimes, an Amnesty International probe has found. The human rights group based its conclusions on interviews with 41 survivors of the attacks and witnesses who saw soldiers firing on people...