Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed is under pressure to end the conflict with its northern state of Tigray as the regional dispute gets closer to spiraling into a full-blown civil war which would impact millions of ordinary Ethiopians and devastate an economy which has regularly been hailed as one of the world’s fastest-growing over the last decade.
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Ethiopia shifts focus from war to economy, U.N. worries about Tigray
“Those aspirations are now at risk. Instability that began even before the Tigray conflict – due to ethnic clashes and other problems – may scare off investors already skittish about the impact of COVID-19 and rapidly-rising Ethiopian government debt. Foreign textiles firms worry about existing investments.”
Ethiopia – TPLF conflict in Tigray will dampen investor appetite
“The timing of such events bodes badly for the Ethiopian government which has been eager to lure foreign direct investment flows (FDI) in the tens of billions of dollars through economic liberalisation, particularly privatisation.”
Tigray conflict will be short-lived but long-term impacts significant
“This is all likely to deter investors and thereby diminish the attractiveness of Abiy’s planned reforms designed to attract foreign capital, including the liberalisation of sectors such as telecommunications and finance.”
Sentinel: ‘Extreme urgent need’: Starvation haunts Ethiopia’s Tigray
“There is an extreme urgent need — I don’t know what more words in English to use — to rapidly scale up the humanitarian response because the population is dying every day as we speak,”
“It is a daily reality to hear people dying with the fighting consequences, lack of food,”
Hunger is “very concerning,” she said, and even water is scarce: Just two of 21 wells still work in Adigrat, a city of more than 140,000, forcing many people to drink from the river. With sanitation suffering, disease follows.
Chron: ‘Extreme urgent need’: Starvation haunts Ethiopia’s Tigray
From “emaciated” refugees to crops burned on the brink of harvest, starvation threatens the survivors of more than two months of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
“There is an extreme urgent need — I don’t know what more words in English to use — to rapidly scale up the humanitarian response because the population is dying every day as we speak,” Mari Carmen Vinoles, head of the emergency unit for Doctors Without Borders, told the AP.
Ethiopia Tigray crisis: EU concern over war crime reports
The European Union says it is getting consistent reports of ethnic-targeted killings and possible war crimes in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray.
Egypt investors in Ethiopia request compensations for losses due to Tigray conflict
Egyptian investors in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are awaiting the federal government’s response to the former’s requests of compensations for production halt and losses incurred due to the ongoing civil war.
WFP VAM | Food Security Analysis Ethiopia Monthly Market Watch, December 2020
Page 3-4 about Tigray market, Mekelle in particular in Table 1 on pg.4 showing pricing increase of different goods and services. ‘Food prices have continued to spike compared to the pre-crisis level. This change within a month into the crisis is predictable as essential food commodities are necessities and therefore not responsive to price. As shown in Table 1, the price of cereals has increased between 56 to 100 percent since the onset of the crisis. Fuel prices increased in multi-fold during the same period.’
Ethiopian Diaspora Provides Over 100m Birr Assistance To Needy, Defense Force
The Ethiopian Diaspora has provided over 100 million birr humanitarian assistance to the needy and members of the National Defense Force.