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Ethiopia Tigray crisis: Warnings of genocide and famine (BBC News)
Ethiopia Tigray crisis: Warnings of genocide and famine (BBC News)
By Alex de Waal
Africa analyst
Published
The patriarch of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church recently ignited controversy when he said that genocide was being committed in the northern Tigray region.
His Holiness Abune Matthias – an ethnic Tigrayan himself – explained that since the outbreak of conflict in November between the Ethiopian military and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), his “mouth had been sealed, unable to speak from fear”.