‘Humanitarian crime’: fighting cuts off insulin supply in Tigray
International Diabetic Federation decries reports ongoing war has led to shortages of life-saving drug at Ethiopian region’s biggest hospital Doctors at the biggest hospital in...
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Horn of Africa drought puts 3.6m children at risk of dropping out of school
Experts warn that girls’ education will be worst hit, as many families are forced to move away from schools More than 3.5 million children are...
Tigrayan forces accuse Eritrea of launching full-scale offensive on border
Tigray People’s Liberation Front says Eritreans are fighting alongside Ethiopian government forces Forces in Ethiopia’s Tigray region said troops from neighbouring Eritrea launched a “full-scale...
Fighting in northern Ethiopia shatters months-long truce
Tigrayan rebels and government each accuse the other of striking first as conflict resumes Fighting has erupted between government forces and Tigrayan rebels in northern...
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...
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...
