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OMNA TIGRAY – NOVEMBER 2024 QUARTERLY SITUATION REPORT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY November 4, 2024, marks the four-year anniversary of the onset of the Tigray Genocide. On this day in 2020, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared war on Tigray, mobilizing the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF), and regional militias from Amhara to launch a coordinated attack on Tigray. While […]
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY June 2024 marked the three-year anniversary of the liberation of most parts of Tigray from invading Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Amhara forces. These forces had occupied the region starting from November 2021 and unleashed unimaginable horrors on the people of Tigray. Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Amhara forces undertook a genocidal campaign of destruction, killing hundreds […]
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY March 2024 marks one year since the United States Department of State published a statement formally recognizing the war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing carried out in Ethiopia since the outbreak of the Tigray war in November 2020. As detailed in their 2023 Human Rights Report, the Department of State determined […]
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Introduction Multisectoral seasonal (emergency needs) assessment is an assessment conducted once in a year in all regions, under the leadership of Disaster Risk Management Commission through its lower structures. Based on this, the team comprising of DRMC, government sectors from federal and regional bureaus, UN agencies and NGOs set out to conduct […]
read moreMulti-Sectoral Meher Assessment Final Report Tigray Region, Food and Agriculture
INTRODUCTION Agriculture remains the mainstay of the Tigray population with over 80% of its population dependent on agriculture for food and livelihood income and the region is divided into 16 livelihoods zone (HEA, 2016). However, the conflict which erupted in November 2020 has severely affected the agriculture livelihoods with major inflicts on infrastructure, loss of […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE Between October 13 and 16, 2023, Tigrayans worldwide partook in three days of mourning for all the lives lost in a genocidal war that has spanned 3 years. There were lives taken on the battlefield, as Tigrayans from all walks of life–farmers, professors, priests, students, and survivors of unspeakable atrocities–valiantly defended their people, […]
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY June 2023 marks two years and seven months since the onset of the genocidal war against Tigray by Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Amhara forces. Declared by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on November 4, 2020, the devastating war against Tigray has caused the death of an estimated 600,000 – 800,000 people over the last […]
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The genocidal war on Tigray, which officially began when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared war on November 4, 2020, is the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world. Over the last 28 months, an estimated 600,000 people have died in Tigray, and more than 2 million have been displaced. Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Amhara […]
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It has been 27 months since the deadliest war of the 21st century broke out in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. Officially declared on November 4, 2020, this war in which Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), Eritrean forces, and Amhara forces launched an all-out attack against the 7+ million people of Tigray, has killed an […]
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It has been 26 months since the Ethiopian government declared a genocidal war on Tigray. In that time, the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) and regional forces from the neighboring Amhara region have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide throughout Tigray. Due to the Ethiopian […]
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