I was arrested on the evening of my birthday.
I thought the soldiers, armed with rifles, were looking for someone else when they surrounded the coffee house where I was having my usual catch-up with my friends on Monday.
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BBC: Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: BBC reporter Girmay Gebru detained by military
The BBC reporter in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit region of Tigray has been detained by the military.
Witnesses say Girmay Gebru, who works for BBC Tigrinya, was taken along with four other people from a café in the regional capital, Mekelle.
Mr Girmay is reported to have been taken to a military camp in Mekelle.
The BBC is yet to establish the reason for his detention, but has expressed its concern to the Ethiopian authorities.
A local journalist, Tamirat Yemane, and two translators – Alula Akalu and Fitsum Berhane, who were working for the Financial Times and the AFP news agency, respectively – have also been detained in recent days.