‘Look after my babies’: Fleeing war in Ethiopia, a broken Tigray family seeks safety

War had broken out in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region at the worst possible time for Abraha and his family. Their village of Mai Kadra was caught in the first known massacre of a grinding conflict that has killed thousands of ethnic Tigrayans like them.

“Look after my babies,” she said. “I’m going to die. I don’t have hope. I’m very sorry.”