Tag: Tigray

By Our Reporter Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed  has refuted claims that the country’s army massacred innocent, unarmed civilians in Tigray. Abiy said federal troops had not killed a single civilian in their nearly month-long offensive against regional forces in Tigray. He also assured Parliament on Monday that the army would not destroy Mekelle, capital of Tigray, after announcing its capture yesterday. The Ethiopian government has been trying to quell a rebellion by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a powerful ethnically based party that dominated the central government for nearly three decades until Abiy came to power in 2018. Thousands of people are believed to have been killed since the fighting began, more than 43,000 have fled to neighbouring Sud...