Tigray: almost one in three children under five malnourished, UN says
Urgent action needed to avert further disaster in war-torn country as funding ‘fast running out’ Nearly one in three children under five in the Ethiopian...
Category : Ethiopia
Drought in Horn of Africa places 22m people at risk of starvation, says UN
Four years of failed rains in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia have left the region facing catastrophe this year The number of people at risk of...
Hunger in Tigray pushing women and girls into sex work
People in Ethiopian region turn to desperate measures after authorities stop 6 million people accessing their own money Hunger in the besieged region of Tigray...
‘Colour of the skin’: WHO chief hits out over Tigray crisis indifference
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says world ignores Ethiopian humanitarian disaster being inflicted on six million people by their own government The head of the World Health...
Eritrean refugees say they are being arbitrarily detained in Ethiopian camps
Tigrinya speakers say they face beatings, detention and privation, and blame UN for ‘abandoning’ them, despite right to be in Ethiopia Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia...
Lavrov’s African tour another front in struggle between west and Moscow
Analysis: Foreign minister seeks to win friends and influence people in countries where closeness can be traced back to USSR Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign...
Famine: what is it, where will it strike and how should the world respond?
A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisis Global hunger toll soars...
Villagers massacred in western Ethiopia, says state-appointed body
Prime minister Abiy Ahmed blames Oromo Liberation Army but group says government-allied militias behind attacks An unknown number of villagers have been killed in an...
More than 4,000 arrested in Amhara as Ethiopia cracks down on militia
At least 19 journalists caught up in mass detentions after government moves against Fano, its former ally in Tigray conflict Ethiopia has launched a sweeping...
‘I saw an oncologist cry’: Tigray cancer patients sent home to die for lack of drugs
Doctors call for international help as Ethiopia civil war leaves terminally ill being treated with paracetamol in Mekelle hospital Doctors caring for cancer patients at...
