The US pressures all sides to stop fighting and negotiate peace in northern Ethiopia.
Ethiopia
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Biden executive order raises spectre of further sanctions against parties prolonging fighting and humanitarian crisis.
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Since July, 445 trucks have entered Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray, but only 38 returned – hampering future aid deliveries.
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Eritrean soldiers and Ethiopian rebel fighters raped and killed refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, rights group says.
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Border disputes and the GERD project are sowing the seeds of conflict between the two states.
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UN human rights investigators unable to deploy to site of alleged massacre of several hundred people in holy city.
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Rival sides offer conflicting accounts as 10-month conflict in northern Ethiopia drags on.
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Tigrayan forces reject allegations by local officials in Amhara region they killed scores of people earlier this month.
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The bodies were found between July 26 and August 8 on the Sudanese side of the Setit River, says Sudan.
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War-hit region facing severe shortage of aid, cash and fuel due to ‘de facto humanitarian aid blockade’, UN says.
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USAID’s Ethiopia director says TPLF has looted warehouses of the aid agency in recent weeks.
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Antonio Guterres tells the UN Security Council the conflict in Tigray is threatening the country’s social fabric.
EHRC says rebel group killed 150 people in Oromia region last week, and 60 others were killed in reprisal attacks.
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The Max was grounded more than two years ago following crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people.