Search results for ‘Ethiopia’
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Ethiopia food crisis – UK must work ‘very closely’ with East African nation, says MP
We put the question of UNRWA funding to the foreign office minister Andrew Mitchell when I spoke to him from our studio earlier.
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Ethiopia’s 1985 famine would ‘pale in comparison’ to current crisis, says president of Tigray Interim Administration
We spoke to Getachew Reda, President of the Tigray Interim Regional Administration, and began by asking him about the current humanitarian situation.
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Deadly combination of war and drought leaves Ethiopia facing famine
It’s already been ravaged by war. Now Ethiopia’s Tigray region is on the verge of famine – with at least two million people at risk of starvation and death. Elders and international aid agencies are comparing the crisis to the mid-1980s – when war and drought caused a famine that killed up to a million…
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Poet Lemn Sissay on growing up in the care system, racism and finding his Ethiopian family
Lemn Sissay has written a daily poem at dawn for more than a decade.
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Poet Lemn Sissay on growing up in the care system, racism and finding his Ethiopian family
Lemn Sissay OBE talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about growing up in the care system, finding his identity as a British and Ethiopian man, and why the care system in the UK is failing children in need, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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Sudan crisis: thousands flee to Ethiopia as fighting gets worse
Fighting in Khartoum between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary RSF group shows no sign of abating despite diplomatic talks taking place in Saudi Arabia.
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Will Ethiopia peace deal improve situation in Tigray? (dubbed)
Troops who fought alongside Ethiopian forces against rebels in the Tigray region have begun withdrawing – under a peace agreement brokered by the African union.
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Ethiopia Tigray war: Fighting shatters five-month truce
In Ethiopia a tentative truce between the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, known as the TPLF, has been shattered by fighting, The break in the five-month ceasefire deals a blow to any hope of peace talks to end the conflict, which has cost thousands of lives and displaced millions of people. Today, an…
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Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: Truce brings little respite
In northern Ethiopia, after months of brutal fighting the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front have reached a truce.
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How the Ukraine war hit Ethiopia’s food supplies
The East African nation was already struggling with the worst drought in half a century, a brutal civil conflict and soaring food prices.
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Ethiopia on the brink of worst famine in decades
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is not only creating a huge humanitarian crisis there, but it is putting severe strain on world food supplies.
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War crimes in Ethiopia: rape as a weapon of war
Jamal Osman and Amnesty’s Donatella Rovera talk about the harrowing stories they have uncovered from this ongoing civil war.
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Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: ‘Humanitarian situation is desperate’, says Amnesty International
We spoke to Amnesty International senior investigator, Donatella Rovera, who has travelled worldwide investigating and documenting serious human rights abuses for over 20 years.
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Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Survivors share stories of sexual violence carried out by fighters
Ethiopia’s prime minister has indicated in the past week that he is open to negotiations on a ceasefire between his government and the Tigray rebel forces after 15 months of brutal fighting and countless war crimes.
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Ethiopia civil war: Stories of war crimes uncovered in Amhara
Over a year into Ethiopia’s civil war, one of the federal government’s top military commanders says they’re planning on entering Mekelle, the capital of the rebel Tigray region, to – “eliminate” the last of their enemy. US diplomats flew into Addis Ababa last week, hoping to broker a ceasefire in a conflict which has seen…
