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Kidnapping has become rampant in Ethiopia's Oromia region, leaving residents of Addis Ababa scared to leave the capital, with many accusing OLA rebels. I interviewed several victims and their relatives, who paid ransoms from $350 to $8,800.

‘This is a pandemic’: Ethiopia’s Oromia region gripped by surge in kidnappings

From theguardian.com

Driving through Abala yesterday, on Afar's border with Tigray. A complete ghost town - most homes, the hospital and the police station looted during four months of TPLF occupation.

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Fred Harter

@FredHarter

Jun 8, 2022

Photos sent from Ayder hospital showing empty wards and bare cupboards. Doctors say they were forced to send all patients home last week - except emergency ones - owing to a lack of supplies, despite the recent increase in aid to Tigray.

Fred Harter

@FredHarter

May 15, 2023

People traffickers are abducting Tigrayan refugees from camps in southeastern Sudan and selling them across the border to Libya, where they are tortured until they pay ransoms, several victims of the trade said.

‘I saw many bodies’: having escaped one conflict, Tigray refugees face new terrors

Dozens of aid trucks lined up outside Semera on Thursday. They are expected to arrive in Mekelle today as part of a convoy of 200, the biggest since the truce was declared 2 months ago.

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Fred Harter

@FredHarter

Jan 13, 2024

With Somalia threatening war, Ethiopia insists it did not agree to recognise Somaliland in return for a port. But Somaliland's foreign minister told me "nothing is going to happen" without recognition . My report on the "memorandum of misunderstanding".

‘We are ready for a war’: Somalia threatens conflict with Ethiopia over breakaway region

The Ethiopia-Somaliland MoU is leading to calls in the UK to lend diplomatic recognition to Somaliland

Alexander Stafford

@Alex_Stafford

Jan 16, 2024

In light of the Ethiopian deal with Somaliland, yesterday in the Houses of Parliament I called on the UK Government to start the process to recognise Somaliland as a free, independent sovereign nation.

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Residents of Mariam Shewito, Endabagerima, Gendebta and other villages near Adwa said Eritrean soldiers killed hundreds of civilians following a battle in the area in late October, days before the ceasefire was signed.

‘They just left the corpses lying there’: survivors speak about the horrors of a massacre in...

Tigray forces have called on the international community to help them facilitate the release of 4,200 POWs, a major possible step towards peace in northern Ethiopia after 18 months of conflict. theafricareport.com/206225/ethiopi…

Fred Harter

@FredHarter

Jul 16, 2022

Gold and money traders in Hargeisa's market, Somaliland. “You could not trade like this in Mogadishu," says one. "Here no one will touch it, but there you would get robbed straight away.” thetimes.co.uk/article/camel-…

Fred Harter

@FredHarter

Sep 29, 2023

Nearly one year after the Pretoria ceasefire, hundreds of thousands of IDPs from western Tigray are still trapped in shabby displacement camps and now starving without aid, with no hopes of returning home soon.

Unresolved status of western Tigray threatens Ethiopia’s peace deal

From thenewhumanitarian.org

Despite resuming food aid in December, aid agencies are struggling to distribute at scale and get food to all who need it. "Just 14% of 3.2 million people targeted for food aid by humanitarian agencies in Tigray this month had received it by Jan 21."

$FILE - A worker walks next to a pile of sacks of food earmarked for the Tigray and Afar regions in a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Semera, the regional capital for the Afar region, in Semera, Ethiopia, Feb. 21, 2022. Only a small fraction of needy people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region are receiving food aid, according to an aid memo seen by The Associated Press, more than one month after aid...$

Nearly 400 Ethiopians have died of starvation recently. Millions more need food aid

First used in Tigray and now deployed to Amhara and Oromia, drones have become an essential counterinsurgency tool in Ethiopia. The military says they are like any other weapon, but concerns are mounting over the civilian toll. My report:

‘Horrific’ civilian toll as Ethiopia turns to combat drones

From thenewhumanitarian.org

War, climate change and the legacy of an aid suspension have combined to push millions of Ethiopians to the brink, as reports of hundreds of starvation deaths begin to emerge.

thetimes.com

The food aid stopped and the rains failed. Now famine stalks millions

Four decades after hundreds of thousands starved to death in Ethiopia and inspired Live Aid, officials in the Tigray region are warning of a disaster that could rival that of 1984-85

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