Tigray in a sentence

The peace deal requires them to leave Tigray and though they have pulled out of major cities and towns, they maintain a presence in areas close to their border with Tigray.

According to the agreement, IDPs were to be resettled in Southern Tigray by early June 2024 and in Western Tigray by early July 2024.

Amharas resent Abiy’s entente with Tigray, worrying that he will hand back long-disputed territory—known as Welkait-Tsegede to Amharas and Western Tigray to Tigrayans—that Amhara militias seized during the war.

A move toward Tigray's independence would also trigger resistance among Amhara nationalist factions fearful that it would mean the permanent loss of territories they claim Tigray annexed from Amhara in the early 1990s, as Crisis Group documented in June.

For weeks, aid-laden trucks have been blocked at Tigray’s borders, and the U.N. and other humanitarian groups were increasingly anxious to reach Tigray as hunger grows and hospitals run out of basic supplies like gloves and body bags.

Blinken himself described the events in Tigray as “” in 2021, though he did not use similar language while in Addis Ababa this week.

Dr Dlamini praised the resilience of the people of Tigray and expressed her appreciation for the government's efforts, support of humanitarian partners, and federal and regional authorities in stabilizing the situation.

For months Ethiopia’s government denied that Eritrean forces were even in Tigray.

In March, the acute malnutrition rate for children screened in Tigray health centres was 30%; hitting 63% for pregnant and lactating women.

Internet and phone communications were also shut down in the northern Tigray region for most of a two-year war that ended in a ceasefire in November.

Major issues remain to be resolved, including the withdrawal of Eritrean and other forces that have fought alongside the government and the future of disputed territory claimed by both Tigray and the neighbouring region of Amhara.

On the 3rd and 4th of August 2023, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Ethiopia Country Office head Dr. Nonhlanhla Dlamini WHO representative a.i., and her team visited the Tigray region.

Redwan Hussien and Getachew K Reda (seated), representing the Ethiopian government and the Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front, signing the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in Pretoria.

The Ethiopian and Eritrean governments saw the Tigray regional leaders, who had long dominated Ethiopia’s government before Abiy took office, as a common threat.

The EU suspended its budget support for Ethiopia in January 2021 over the war in Tigray.

Their distrust of Eritrea, which has never fully withdrawn from Ethiopian territory after the Tigray war, has grown (see Section III below).

The war in Tigray was marked by waves of violence against civilians, including massacres and rapes, by the armies of Ethiopia and neighbouring Eritrea, as well as Tigrayan fighters, regional forces from Amhara and militias, sucked into the conflict.

Yet this burgeoning “catastrophe” has gone largely unnoticed in the shadow of even wider hunger and displacement due to civil war in the northern Tigray region.

Furtuna (5) is getting the early education she deserves, and she loves counting with children at the Mahabre Dego Primary School, Tigray Region, Ethiopia.

He political opponents and journalists who were reporting on the Tigray War, likely because of the horrifying violence and destruction by his Ethiopian National Defense Forces.