<p>It’s two years since the conflict started in Ethiopia.
The war has taken it’s toll on people in the affected areas with tens of thousands of people dead.
And the World Health Organisation estimates 90% of people in the Tigray region are in need of food aid.
This week, negotiators from the opposing TPLF and government forces signed a ceasefire agreement.
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Oct 3
Focus on Africa: Can Botswana continue to depend on its diamond industry?
In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Waihiga Mwaura, Botswana's President Duma Boko, outlines his plan to reduce his country's reliance on the diamond industry amid falling global demand, and how he is pushing for a 0% tariff deal with the US.Guinea is showing signs of econom ... Show More
27m 30s
Nov 2022
Ethiopia’s Tigray War: After the Cessation of Hostilities, What Next?
On 2 November, the Ethiopian federal government and Tigrayan forces reached an agreement to cease hostilities and end almost two years of bloody war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The truce came after the Ethiopian army, together with Eritrean troops and forces from the Am ... Show More
57m 57s
Apr 2022
Can a “Humanitarian Truce” Help End Ethiopia’s Civil War?
After almost seventeen months of devastating civil war in Ethiopia, the federal government on 24 March announced what it called a humanitarian truce. The offer would ostensibly allow aid into Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, which has, in effect, been under a blockade for month ... Show More
1h 8m
May 2021
Exposing the war in Tigray, Ethiopia
Massacres, gang rapes, forced famine — the list of atrocities being reported in Tigray, Ethiopia is long and growing. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared the military intervention officially over in November, but the situation on the ground clearly doesn’t reflect that. And there ... Show More
21m 8s
Nov 2020
Why 30,000 refugees are fleeing Ethiopia
When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s Prime Minister in 2018, the country was full of promise and excitement for a better future. But this year, hope has turned to horror as headlines of ethnic violence and war have superseded those of peace-making. The conflict in northern Ethiopia ... Show More
24m 15s
Oct 2021
Crisis In Ethiopia: Breaking Through the Propaganda, w/ Eugene Puryear
The U.S. and EU have accused Ethiopia of every atrocity imaginable and now they’re preparing sanctions. The Ethiopian government insists that it’s legitimately fighting a separatist group, the formerly ruling TPLF, which is attempting to regain power through violence and terroris ... Show More
1h 59m