The disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) program for 75,000 former combatants in Tigray officially began today, November 21, 2024, the National Rehabilitation Commission (NRC) ...
A resident of Tigray's capital, Mekelle, which is under the control of the TPLF rebels, has managed to tell the BBC what life is like. Getting hold of the basics needed to survive every day is a ...
It seems to me that these shoes can talk. They tell the memories I cannot bear to verbalise myself. But the world needs to hear what happened to us, because it feels like everyone has forgotten Tigray ...
Asmelash was fighting with the TPLF on the front lines in the northwest of the region when a mortar shell hit him in 2022, resulting in the loss of his leg. “Life as a soldier is very hard. At first, ...
I walked until my legs were injured and bleeding. I thank God that we are safe here and we have something to eat.” – Gannite, Ethiopian refugee woman who fled into Sudan from clashes in the Tigray ...
As the recovery from war began, school restarted, and the survivors came out of hiding and returned to Kallamino school in Mekelle. The students from Tigray whose education had been disrupted were ...
One of his sisters, also a fighter, sustained permanent injuries and is still receiving medical support in Mekelle. Another sister who had lived in a different part of Tigray was forced out of her ...
A schism within the TPLF has set Ethiopia’s war-scarred region of Tigray on edge. Getachew Reda’s reformist faction says the party’s monopoly on politics must be broken. For more than 40 years, the ...
Two years ago, on November 2, 2022, in the South African capital Pretoria, a peace agreement was signed between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray rebels. Its goal was to put an end ...
CONTAINS graphic references to sexual violence. Pictures by Michele Spatari. Video by Solan Kolli Rawa curls up on a chair, pulls her knees tight to her chest and hides her face with a large white ...