For Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, who comprise more than 40% of their country’s population and most of the people in the Tigray region, the city of Axum is the holiest of places. They believe it to ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Bodies with gunshot wounds lay in the streets for days in Ethiopia’s holiest city. At night, residents listened in horror as hyenas fed on the corpses of people they knew. But ...
An elderly woman who fled to the city of Axum in the Tigray region of Ethiopia to seek safety sits with her head bandaged after being wounded during an attack on the city, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. She ...
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“I saw a lot of people dead on the street”, says Ayana*, a 21-year-old resident of Axum, a small town in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. Ayana managed to flee when state troops and ...
Our adventure in Ethiopia continued (see part 1 and 2 here) through to the ancient and mysterious town of Axum which claims to be the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant and follows further north ...
This video shows scenes of a man’s body being carried and attended to by a priest near the Arbatu Ensessa church in Axum. Video sent to Human Rights Watch that according to the videographer and the ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Soldiers from Eritrea systematically killed “many hundreds” of people, the large majority men, in a massacre late November in the Ethiopian city of Axum in the Tigray region, ...
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