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- Jun 14, 2021
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Pope demands food aid reach starving people of Tigray
- Jun 13, 2021
Pope Francis demanded Sunday that humanitarian aid reach hungry people in the war-torn Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, where Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers are blocking food deliveries and other assistance.
As Eritrea marks 30 years of independence, people face oppression
- Jun 5, 2021
Eritrea is marking its 30th anniversary of independence this year, with human rights activists noting the country has little reason to celebrate, given the brutal oppression experienced under President Isaias Afwerki.
‘Our season’: Eritrean troops kill, rape, loot in Tigray
- May 28, 2021
Women who make it to the clinic for sex abuse survivors in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray usually struggle to describe their injuries. But when they can’t take a seat and quietly touch their bottoms, the nurses know it’s an unspeakable kind of suffering.
Atrocities still occurring in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, says priest
- May 14, 2021
A priest from the Catholic Eparchy of Adigrat in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray says killings, abductions and rape are still occurring in the region where a military offensive launched in November.
U.S. ambassador hosts Ethiopian Orthodox Church head after Tigray warning
- May 10, 2021
The United States ambassador to Ethiopia on Monday hosted the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church after he warned of “genocide” in the Tigray region in his first public comments on the war.
Ethiopian Orthodox Church patriarch blasts Tigray ‘genocide’
- May 8, 2021
The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the country’s Tigray region is sharply criticizing Ethiopia’s actions, saying he believes it’s genocide: “They want to destroy the people of Tigray.”
In Ethiopia camp, displaced Tigrayans live with hunger, fear
- May 5, 2021
No one knows just how many hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans have fled their homes during the war as Ethiopian troops and allied forces, including soldiers from neighboring Eritrea, pursue fighters loyal to the Tigray regional party whose leaders long dominated the national government before being sidelined by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Christian groups say Eritrea still persecutes believers, despite recent prisoner release
- Mar 13, 2021
Eritrea’s recent release of over 170 Christians since last summer doesn’t signal a turn towards religious freedom in the East African country, activists are warning.
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