BREAKING: An airstrike in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray has killed 56 people and wounded at least 30 in a camp for the internally displaced. https://t.co/XrIMppp4yw
Aid workers say an air strike in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray has killed 56 people and wounded at least 30 in a camp for the internally displaced
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The Ethiopian government's plan to expel @UN leadership, including from @UNICEF and @UNOCHA, is an affront to humanitarian principles. This act of intimidation jeopardizes lifesaving aid for all Ethiopians and must be reversed.
Tigray is in a complete siege as medication & emergency food stocks run out. Families of patients are standing by helplessly, having to watch their loved ones die of starvation. @UN ACT NOW! @KenyaMissionUN@Niger_ONU@PmTunisia@SVG_UN#TigrayCantWait https://t.co/qGrDnyrsE8
Tip: #Ethiopia’s Foreign minister Demeke Mekonnen walked into Palace Hotel in NY -where US delegation is- over 90 min ago & hasn’t come out yet.
We screamed questions on #Tigray: no answer.
We asked State’s Ned Price who is he meeting: no answer.
"Mangled corpses are mysteriously appearing here, downstream in Sudan."
- Nima Elbagir details CNN's investigation into a new campaign of torture, detention, and execution in Tigray
.@UNOCHA issues a dire warning on #Tigray:
Food stocks ran out on 20 August. A minimum of 100 trucks of food, non-food items and fuel are required daily to sustain an adequate response. Since 12 July, only 335 trucks have entered Tigray – about 9% of the required 3,900 trucks.
#UPDATE Eritrean soldiers are blocking and looting food aid in Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region, according to government documents obtained by AFP, stoking fears of starvation deaths as fighting nears the six-month mark
#MEKELLE
Seid Mussa Omar is Tigrayan.
He says only 10 Tigrayans remained of about 400 who worked with him at a hospital in northern Ethiopia. The rest were killed or fled.
“This is genocide...Their aim is to erase Tigray,” he says.
“ my name is Berhe Redae. I am a resident of Axum city. I had my own garage. On January 25, 2021, Eritrean troops came to my house & shoot me on the head. Now, I can’t hear, I can’t see & I can’t smell. I was responsible for a family of 4 & now, no body is taking care of them.”
Eritrean military forces together with that of Abiy @AbiyAhmedAli#Ethiopia were intentionally burning & destroying grain stores, kitchen, grinding stones & piled grasses of fleeing farmers so that they will have no shelter & food, & starve! #Tigraygenocide#Tigraywillprevail
“Do African lives not matter as much as those experiencing conflict in other countries?” A haunting question from @USAmbUN about the inaction to stop the violence especially against women in #Tigray