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Mekelle, Tigray (Wegahta) - Thirty-three women have been killed in Tigray region since the beginning of the 2018 E.C., head of the Tigray Women’s Association said, highlighting what she described as continuing violence against women nearly four years after a peace agreement ended the region’s devastating war.
Mekelle, Tigray (Wegahta) - A drone strike near Mekelle, the capital of Tigray region, killed one person and wounded another Tuesday, according to a report by the BBC citing local administration and eyewitnesses, as tensions between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front threaten to undermine the fragile pretoria peace agreement.
Mekelle, Tigray (Wegahta) - Tigrayan human rights advocates and social media users have launched an online campaign calling for justice for Zewdu Haftu, posting photographs of themselves wearing black versions of traditional Ashenda clothing and using the hashtag
MEKELLE, TIGRAY (Wegahta) — A court in Tigray’s capital Mekelle on Wednesday acquitted two men previously sentenced to life in prison for the 2023 killing of Zewdu Haftu, after key digital evidence could not be produced because it had disappeared from the court archive, according to sources familiar with the proceedings.
Mekelle, Tigray (Wegahta) - Fighting broke out at around 6:00 a.m.
A regional emergency plan warns that 3.7 million people could require humanitarian assistance this year as Tigray struggles to recover from war but authorities say they lack the resources to put much of their preparedness plan into action
MEKELLE, TIGRAY (WEGAHTA) — Thousands of students in Tigray region are preparing to sit for the national Grade 12 leaving examination this week, after a delay in the arrival of examination papers sparked a dispute between the regional authorities and the federal government.
Mekelle, Tigray (Wegahta) - Hundreds of Tigrayans gathered in Ethiopia’s capital on Saturday calling for peace in the Tigray region, implementation of the 2022 Pretoria peace agreement and an end to forced military conscription, while Tigray’s regional authorities and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front condemned the demonstration as serving the interests of the federal government.
Mekelle, Tigray (Wegahta) — Mothers demanding the release of their detained sons were beaten and gunfire erupted after security forces carried out what residents described as a forced recruitment operation in the Tigray’s town of Hagereselam, witnesses and residents told Wegahta Facts.
MEKELLE, TIGRAY (Wegahta) — The Tigray Culture and Tourism Bureau has revoked the “Ashenda Ambassador” title awarded to Zema Embiza, a social media influencer and cultural figure who recently faced backlash after she publicly criticized the widespread forced military recruitment in the region.
