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FILE - People walk from a rural area towards a nearby town where a food distribution operated by the Relief Society of Tigray was taking place, near the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. Ethiopia's lead negotiator in ongoing peace talks asserted Friday, Nov. 11, 2022 that 70% of the Tigray region is now under military control and aid deliveries have resumed to the area, but there is no immediate confirmation from aid workers or Tigray spokesmen. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Ethiopia Asserts 70% of Tigray Now Under Military Control

Ethiopia’s lead negotiator in ongoing peace talks asserted Friday that 70% of the country’s northern Tigray region is now under military control and aid deliveries have resumed to the area, but there…

AP 11 November 2022
From left to right, Chief of Staff of Ethiopian Armed Forces Field Marshall Birhanu Jula, former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, African Union envoy and former Nigerian president Olesegun Obasanjo, and Head of the Tigray Forces Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede, attend continuing peace talks between Ethiopia's government and Tigray regional representatives, in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. A new round of talks began Monday to work out military and other details of last week's signing of a "permanent" cessation of hostilities in a two-year conflict thought to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

New Round of Peace Talks Between Ethiopia, Tigray Reps

A new round of talks began Monday between Ethiopia’s government and Tigray regional representatives to work out military and other details of last week’s signing of a “permanent” cessation of…

AP 07 November 2022
Former Nigerian president and African Union envoy Olesegun Obasanjo gestures to Ethiopian government representative Redwan Hussien and Tigray delegate Getachew Reda after signing the AU-led negotiations to resolve the conflict in northern Ethiopia, in Pretoria , South Africa, November 2, 2022. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Ethiopia Government and Tigray Forces Establish Hotline Following Truce- Obasanjo

Ethiopia's government and Tigray forces have established a telephone hotline following a truce struck last week, the African Union's chief mediator Olusegun Obasanjo said on Monday. The Ethiopian…

07 November 2022
A destroyed tank is seen in a field in the aftermath of fighting between the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces in Kasagita town, in Afar region, Ethiopia, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Parties to War in Ethiopia's Tigray Region Agree to Stop Fighting

The Ethiopian government and regional forces from Tigray agreed on Wednesday to cease hostilities, a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough two years into a war that has killed thousands, displaced…

02 November 2022
Medhin Gereziher, 1, is treated for malnutrition at the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Babies are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate they did before the war in Ethiopia's Tigray region, according to a yet-unpublished study shared by its authors with The Associated Press. (AP Photo)

Babies in Tigray Dying At 4 Times Pre-War Levels, Study Says

Babies in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for over 5 million people, according to…

AP 06 October 2022
A satellite image shows the deployment of heavy weaponry in the town of Serha, Eritrea, near the border with Ethiopia's Tigray region, Serha, Eritrea, September 19, 2022. Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS.

Ethiopia Accepts African Union Invitation to Peace Talks

Ethiopia's government has accepted an invitation by the African Union to participate in peace talks aimed at ending a two-year conflict with rival Tigray forces, the prime minister's national…

05 October 2022
Kaari Betty Murungi, Chair of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, speaks about the presentation of the first report of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

UN Experts Detail Extensive War Crimes Amid Tigray Conflict

U.N.-backed investigators said Thursday they have turned up evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Ethiopian government forces, Tigray forces, and Eritrea’s military — including rape,…

AP 22 September 2022
Hemen Hagos, 1.5 months old Ethiopian child admitted with pertussis, also known as whooping cough, receives care at a hospital in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia September 9, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer

Deadly Childhood Diseases Rise in Ethiopia's Tigray As War Hampers Vaccinations

Deadly diseases such as measles, tetanus, and whooping cough are on the rise in Ethiopia's Tigray region after vaccination rates plunged during the civil war that broke out nearly two years ago,…

20 September 2022
Women and children wait under the shade of an umbrella at a food distribution site in the town of Adi Mehameday, in the western Tigray region of Ethiopia, Saturday, May 28, 2022. (Claire Nevill/WFP via AP)

Ethiopia Names Negotiators for Looming Tigray Peace Process

Ethiopian authorities have named a team of seven negotiators for possible peace talks with Tigray forces. The announcement comes after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced earlier in June…

AP 29 June 2022
Members of the Tigray diaspora in North America protest about their conflict with Ethiopia, near the State Department in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Ethiopia’s Invisible Ethnic Cleansing

For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. Older people, women, and children have been loaded onto…

Kenneth Roth 13 June 2022
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