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[Bloomberg @business]

Ethiopian Airlines has suspended flights to three destinations in Tigray, after reports that forces affiliated to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front had taken control of the airport in the regional capital https://t.co/A1cXElhC9N

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Ethiopia's Virgin Mary festival in Tigray cancelled over drone strike fears https://t.co/GS5rAPRsxa

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Ethiopia is heading to the polls, but not everyone can vote https://t.co/QLcaM2vu89

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Some 19.5 million Sudanese people, or more than 40% of the population, are facing acute hunger, according to a report by a global hunger monitor, as the contours of a war that has created the world's worst hunger crisis shift. https://t.co/VjbVjpYR8w

[United Nations @UN]

Ethiopia: Amid recent fighting in Tigray, @UNHumanRights chief @volker_turk warns of the risk of a deepening human rights crisis, urging restraint and steps toward de-escalation.

“Civilians are once again caught in between escalating tensions.”

https://t.co/GoPByvbvUB

[RFI English @RFI_En]

Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region this week has raised fears of a return to full-scale war, just over three years after a peace deal ended a conflict that killed more than 600,000 people. https://t.co/stZt2Q1DF4 via @RFI_En

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

One person has been killed and another injured in drone strikes in Ethiopia’s ‍northern Tigray ‍region, a senior Tigrayan official and a humanitarian worker said, amid fears of renewed conflict between regional and federal forces https://t.co/V28AXgER51

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Flights to northern Ethiopia cancelled as fears mount of renewed conflict https://t.co/M8oWMmEy4C

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

News: Ethiopian Airlines suspends flights to Tigray airports

Mekelle – Ethiopian Airlines has suspended flights scheduled for today to airports in Tigray, including #Mekelle, #Axum, #Shire, and #Humera, according to information obtained by Addis Standard.

An Addis Standard reporter on the ground in Mekelle confirmed airport staff were informed to take a break for the day. However, Ethiopian Airlines’ ticket office in Mekelle continued providing services, excluding flights scheduled for today.

“The system is working. We are giving services. We sell tickets scheduled from tomorrow onwards. We reschedule flights and provide other services,” one ticket office staff member told Addis Standard. “But none of us know why flights were suspended today.”

Passengers who had booked flights for today received text messages notifying them of the cancellation. One message sent to customers read:

“Your flight ET0102 from ADD on 29 Jan 2026, at 08:10 AM has been cancelled due to unplanned circumstances….

Read more: https://t.co/8qexJzeigQ

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

#Editorial: In #Tigray, starvation has replaced shells as a weapon of #war. This ruin must end!

The deaths now reported from Tigray’s internally displaced persons (IDP) camps are neither sudden nor unforeseeable. They are the cumulative result of political failure, economic collapse, and the deliberate neglect, by both federal and regional authorities, of repeated early warnings, long after the guns fell silent.

Hundreds have died since July 2024 alone, collapsing after days without food, medicine, or care. Elderly people, women, and children are bearing the brunt.

This is starvation in plain sight.

But this starvation ravaging Tigray’s IDP camps is not simply a shortage of food. It is the consequence of a systemic, deeper collapse: livelihoods destroyed by war, markets left to wither, and community support systems, once the first responders in times of crisis, systematically dismantled. What remains is a population trapped between political paralysis and institutional abandonment.

https://t.co/ekaMq900Ho

[Eugen Tomiuc @Etomiuc]

#tigray Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray https://t.co/hxvOF265vc

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

Over 1,700 IDPs at #Hitsats center in #Tigray in #critical condition amid severe #hunger, lack of medical care

More than 1,700 internally displaced persons (IDPs) sheltering at the Hitsats IDP center in Tigray are facing a worsening hunger crisis, with reports indicating repeated fatalities and growing numbers of people in critical condition due to severe food shortages and limited access to medical care.

According to a report by the local broadcaster, at least 50 IDPs have reportedly died amid acute food shortages since July 2025, while approximately 1,700 others remain at risk. Elderly people, women, and children are among those most affected, with residents reporting incidents of people collapsing after going days without adequate food.

Simret, Salsay Weyane Tigray , TPLF and Tigray Interim Administration President issued statement regarding the issue.

Read more at:
https://t.co/Y2yilj0zw1

[Omna Tigray @OmnaTigray]

Five years ago today — Nov 4, 2020 — the genocide against Tigray began.

Tigray’s fight for survival is far from over.

As we commemorate this difficult milestone, a thread on Tigray’s current situation. #TigrayGenocide #RememberTigray #Tigray5Years 👇🏾

[Wegahta Facts @WegahtaFacts]

#Tigray: “I left my home 4 yrs ago,” says Fesseha. In 2015, after a 16-day trek across arid terrain, she gave birth on the side of the road with no support.

Displacement brought her to Maidimu, where she has been longing for home ever since.

Read more: https://t.co/Pc7CTOnCtK

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

News: Nearly half of #Tigray’s children remain out of school as war’s impact persists

Nearly 1.2 million children, 46% of Tigray’s school-age population, are out of school this academic year, the regional Bureau of Education said, citing the incomplete implementation of the Pretoria peace deal and the war’s lasting social and economic toll.

According to the Bureau, 2.53 million students were expected to enroll across Tigray, but only 1.36 million have registered, leaving more than a million out of school.

In a statement shared with Addis Standard, the Tselemti Development Association revealed that schools in three districts of Tselemti, home to more than 250,000 people, have remained closed for six consecutive years since 2020 due to COVID-19 and the subsequent war. According to the association, prior to the conflict, more than 56,000 students were enrolled across 79 schools in the districts.

https://t.co/D1kUvzIoxO

[Eugen Tomiuc @Etomiuc]

#tigray Layers of Exclusion: How war intensifies discrimination in Tigray; women with disabilities hit hardest - Addis Standard https://t.co/togS1awAJg

[Omna Tigray @OmnaTigray]

For nearly 5 years, more than 1 million Tigrayans have been displaced after being ethnically cleansed from Western Tigray and Irob.

They’ve lived in makeshift camps - forgotten by the world, denied justice, and blocked from returning home.

Now, they’re rising up across Tigray. #ReturnTigrayansHome

[Mulugeta Gebremariam @weddigerea]

The colors and energy of Ashenda Eve fill the streets of Mekelle

[Meron ሜሮን @MeronAlemnew]

@tigistAA 🥹🥰

[Meron ሜሮን @MeronAlemnew]

@tigistAA Perfectly fine! Really inspired going through your TL. Keep them coming 💛