Hyperallergic

Tigray’s Cultural Heritage Is in Danger, But Does the World Care?

November 2, 2022, marked the end of a deadly two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia’s battered Tigray region. Two years of rampant ethnic and cultural cleansing that has claimed over half a million ...
The Conversation

Ethiopia’s war in Tigray risks wiping out centuries of the world’s history

Tigray’s al-Nejashi Mosque, one of Africa’s oldest Islamic sites, was damaged in December 2020. Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images The human carnage and heritage destruction in Ethiopia’s ...
Hyperallergic

What Is Happening in Tigray?

Biete Abba Libanos (House of Abbot Libanos), a rock-cut monolith Orthodox church located in Lalibela, Ethiopia. (via It’s been just over two years since a bloody war broke out in northern Ethiopia’s ...
The Conversation

Tigray’s ancient rock‑hewn churches are under threat: why it matters

The Monastery of Abunä Abraham in Ger'alta, eastern Tigray, Ethiopia. Hagos Abrha Abay Ger‘alta is a principally mountainous zone located in a sandstone escarpment in south-central Tigray. It is in ...
The Economist

A coup attempt in Tigray raises tensions in the Horn

For weeks there had been troubling signs: homes raided by unknown assailants; activists beaten in the street. Then, on March 11th, armed men appeared in Adigrat, a town in Ethiopia’s semi-autonomous ...
Jane's Information Group

Tigray troop movements indicate increased risk of inter-factional violence with Ethiopia's Amhara region

A faction of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), led by its chairman Debretsion Gebremichael, has moved an unknown number of troops towards the disputed areas of Wolkayit and Raya in Ethiopia ...