More than a year into a bloody civil war in Ethiopia that has already claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced upwards of 2 million people, experts fear the worst is yet ahead.
traveled to Ethiopia this week as part of a five-day trip to Africa, in hopes of helping find a peaceful resolution between the government and the TPLF. But according to the anonymous source with Ethiopian ties on the ground who spoke to Yahoo News, “If the pieces are going to align, it’s going to be African voices that are going to play the leading role.”Members of Amhara region militias on their way to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
Ethiopian refugees who fled the fighting in the Tigray region gather on a riverbank in Sudan's eastern Kassala state. Members of the Amhara Special Forces keep guard at the 5th Battalion of the Northern Command of the Ethiopian Army in Dansha, Ethiopia. DEC. 15, 2020 - Shoes left behind belonging to Tigrayan refugees are scattered near the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border after Ethiopian forces blocked people from crossing into Sudan, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan.
MAY 7, 2021 - A fighter loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front mans a guard post on the outskirts of the town of Hawzen, then-controlled by the group, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. MAY 30, 2021 - Ethiopians protest against international pressure on the government over the conflict in Tigray, at a demonstration organised by the city mayor's office held at a stadium in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. JUNE 16, 2021 - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attends his last campaign event ahead of Ethiopia's parliamentary and regional elections scheduled for June 21, in Jimma, Ethiopia.
JUNE 23, 2021 - An injured resident of Togoga, a village about 20km west of Mekele, arrives on a stretcher to the Ayder referral hospital in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia.
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