It is heartening to see around 2,000 Tigrayan IDPs return to their ancestral land. However, over a million IDPs and more than 70,000 refugees remain displaced and in distress. We urge all stakeholders to intensify efforts for the complete withdrawal of invading forces from Tigray and ensure the safe repatriation of all displaced individuals.
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#Lets_put_our_people_first
💠Helping a mother who gave her life and the lives of her children for our survival to save her from starvation is the least!
#Lets_put_our_people_first#ህዝብ_ናነቐድም
💠Children whose parents were heroically martyred should not starve while we are alive!
Update: we're only $2,000 away from our goal 🎉
Thank you to the 168 of you who donated $13k so far. $2k more and we will have $30k (with me matching your $15k) to send medical supplies to 18 healthcare facilities in Tigray.
You can donate here: https://t.co/Fh4lvHZw2z
I received a committment from @SecBlinken that the admin. will work to ensure that the $9 billion in humanitarian aid provided by Congress will be allocated based on where there's the most urgent need - #Tigray#Rohingya#Artsakh#Sudan - rather than the most publicity.
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The Tigray Interim Administration has decided to pull Tigrayan Forces out of Garjale and BaqloManaqia villages near Alamata to honor its understanding with the federal government & Amhara administration to make it easier for Tigrayan IDPs to return as part of the implementation of the Pretoria Agreement. Similar moves to return more Tigrayan IDPs are in the pipeline.
According to the CoHA, demobilization was supposed to occur concurrently with the complete withdrawal of all foreign forces from Tigray. Pressuring Tigrayans to disarm while their land remains under the illegal occupation of genocidal Eritrean and Amhara forces, who continue to commit gross human rights violations, is utterly absurd.
#FreeTigray
As discussions proceed on the Pretoria COHA, it's crucial to recognize that the agreement cannot be effectively upheld or fully realized as long as Eritrean & Amhara forces, backed by the Ethiopian regime, continue their illegal occupation of Tigray.
A very good piece by Mulugeta Berhe: Tigray’s Ceasefire Fifteen Months On: An agreement for peace or an instrument for continuing the objectives of the war in a different way? https://t.co/q2oPTjMJk3
Did #South_Africa send troops to Ethiopia to support ENDF, during the Tigray civil war? Was the conflict a playground for proxy wars?
This is surprising news to me as I hadn't heard about it before.
@TomGardner18@berhe_lucy@CelianMace@wdavison10
Tigray: Letter from Africa Minister @AndrewmitchMP: civilians are”experiencing unacceptable suffering” & “humanitarian indicators in Tigray are extremely worrying.” With so many other crises it’s crucial international community keeps focus on Tigray. @martinplaut@Sally_Keeble
The IDPs and all the people of Tigray deserve to know what the gov’t is doing to restore Tigray’s territorial integrity. @reda_getachew@ProfKindeya@hgodefay Engagement and communications with your people is the least you can do!
As Tigrayans are deliberately starved, the ongoing state-sanctioned #TigrayFamine has a compounding effect on Tigrayan youths, many who've missed years of school due to #TigrayGenocide➕some who can't return to school, having the responsibility to ensure their families' survival.
Tigray faces famine after war, displacement and drought in some areas plus a locust infestation exacerbated the situation, said the president of Tigray's interim administration, Getachew Reda. https://t.co/KgWNibTBTF
This is the greatest humanitarian crisis of the decade, though it gets so little attention.
@USAID needs to make this its first priority.
#Ethiopia#Tigray
"In northern Ethiopia, a new famine could rival the worst of the past" by @globeandmail ⬇️
https://t.co/b1kaN5IWk2