Starving Tigray
The war in Tigray has comprehensively dismantled the region’s economy and food systems.
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- Development Partnerships or Transactional Politics? May 17, 2021“Development Partnerships or Transactional Politics? An Insight into the Continent’s Struggle for Economic Transformation” was originally published May 12, 2021 on theAlex DeWaal
- May 2021 Employee of the Month: Narendra Modi May 10, 2021By Aditya Sarkar and Tanya Aggarwal. The severity of the second wave of the pandemic in India is not an accident. It is the direct consequence of Mr. Modi’s deliberate and careful hollowing out of India’s institutions and centralization of power, unwillingness to listen to contradictory viewpoints, and efforts to win elections, no matter what […]Aditya Sarkar
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WORLD POLITICS REVIEW | April 6, 2021
Tigray Is Being Deliberately Starved to Death:
Alex de Waal on how starvation is being used as a weapon of war in Ethiopia
FOREIGN POLICY | March 3, 2021
"It’s now clear that Isaias saw the peace deal as a security pact with Ethiopia to eliminate the Tigray People’s Liberation Front’s (TPLF) leadership..."
BOSTON REVIEW | MARCH 2, 2021
At terrifying speed, a humanitarian disaster is unfolding in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia
THE IRISH TIMES | Februry 15, 2021
'Ireland must speak up for the starving in Tigray'
As the world’s newest humanitarian catastrophe has been unfolding, Tigrayans have been starving in silence.
BBC News | February 8, 2021
The challenges of getting assistance to address the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray region.