Rape has been used as a weapon by both sides in Ethiopia’s conflict with Tigrayan rebels, which began in November 2020. VOA spoke with 14 women in the northern Amhara region who claim they have been subjected to brutal sexual assaults by Tigrayan fighters and as a result have been ostracized by their communities
Sudan is hosting more than 50,000 refugees who fled the fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Despite the Ethiopian government’s announcement that fighting in Tigray is over, many of the refugees say it is not safe enough to go home
The Italian school of Asmara has closed its doors. Born in 1903, it survived the period of colonialism, the British protectorate, the period of the Negus, that of the communist dictatorship and civil war