An empty operation room at Soba University Hospital in southern Khartoum a month into the conflict.
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Armed conflicts affect the entire spectrum of healthcare, from prevention to treatment.
Members of the Sudanese Armed Forces on Aug. 14, 2023.
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Tehran is supplying weapons to the Sudanese Armed Forces as they fight a paramilitary group for control of the nation.
The front cover of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Annual Report on Ethiopia.
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Donkeys provide vital support to women but their lives are often cut short.
Local fishermen’s boats moor at Somaliland’s Berbera port.
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If the international reactions are anything to go by, Ethiopia’s Red Sea port deal is easier said than done.
Farmers in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
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The rhetoric that presents the Amhara people as a national enemy has gone on, unchallenged, for far too long.
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Abiy Ahmed’s use of the military to address a critical challenge is likely to fail.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (left) with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2018.
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There is increased demand to join BRICS in the emerging world order, partly as a countervailing power to “the west”.
Farmland razed by Eritrean soldiers at a village in Ahferom district, Central zone, Tigray.
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Typically, humanitarian concerns are prioritised following a war. But the environment must also get attention so that societies can produce food and goods to rebuild their lives.
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Parties to the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have agreed to end hostilities after two years. Here is a selection of previously published articles on its devastating consequences.
A damaged tank on the road north of Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, in February 2021.
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The African Union needs to launch a credible, robust mediation process with mutually accepted mediators.
Protesters in the UK demonstrate against Ethiopia’s Tigray war in October 2022.
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Leaders at the centre of the Ethio-Tigray war don’t believe in equal partnership. In their political cultures, winners take all.
Ethiopian women at a garment factory at the Hawassa Industrial Park in the country’s southern region.
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In democratic contexts, getting women into work empowers them. In autocracies like Ethiopia’s, this doesn’t hold. We found out why.
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We used satellite imagery to track the decline of vegetation since the civil war began.
Shiny backgrounds for photo opportunities figure prominently at the 2022 AU-EU summit in Brussels.
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The 2022 summit between the European Union and the African Union seeks to renew the intercontinental partnership with massive investments. However, structural patterns of inequality persist.
Refugees who fled Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict queue for contributions before sunrise in eastern Sudan.
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Despite the recognition of risk, it’s clear that the scope and severity of the Ethiopian crisis has caught many by surprise.
A cheering crowd surrounds the toppled statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Addis Ababa following the overthrow of the Ethiopian military regime in 1991.
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Prevailing political attitudes, security actors, alliances and geopolitics differ starkly from the final days of the hated Ethiopian military regime.
A fighter loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
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Violence in Ethiopia could cause ripples across the Horn of Africa, destabilizing the region.
Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia’s main religions need to take an emotional distance from politics and find a neutral space so they can get moral clarity.
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Where will an end to the conflict come from?
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Unless the blockade by Ethiopia is lifted, Tigray will be in a very bad famine situation.