The recent war in Ethiopia's Tigray region left many disabled veterans without the care they need. Health facilities across the region were largely destroyed by the fighting. ... A young boy who lost his leg during the recent war walks with his mother during a visit at Ortho-Physiotherapy Centre in Mekele, Tigray region of northern Ethiopia ...

Apr 18, 2024 · All things you would want for a young boy. All that changed with the onslaught of a two-year war that devastated Tigray in Ethiopia, where Selemon lives. The dreadful impact of the conflict took its toll on his father, and he suffered a mental breakdown.

The interim government of Ethiopia’s Tigray region has appealed for the Ethiopian federal government to intervene after a faction of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front seized control of two major towns, leaving several people wounded and raising fears of a return to civil war.

Oct 22, 2024 · Many children and teens in the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia returned to school this fall after being unable to go to school for three or four years. Their schools, homes and communities were destroyed or devastated by war from November 2020 through November 2022.

Aug 19, 2021 · The teenagers told us that around 50 adolescent boys and girls were rounded up near Tigray's capital Mekelle and forced to fight, before being captured by Afar's regional forces, who are...

Apr 14, 2025 · The 41-year-old veteran of the recent war in Ethiopia's Tigray region has metal shrapnel in his body that is yet to be removed, more than two years after the fighting ended.

Overall, it is estimated that close to 3 million boys and girls across Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions have missed out on learning opportunities.

Mar 30, 2021 · HRCE calls for the immediate withdrawal of all under 18-year-olds from the Eritrean military and the conflict in Tigray, and urgent action to prevent other child soldiers from Eritrea being deployed in battle.

Dec 20, 2022 · Little Haftom is nearly five years old. His name means "wealthy" in the Tigriyna language but he weighs just half what he should. As the doctor pulls up his jumper and tracksuit bottoms to show...

Oct 19, 2022 · A ten-year-old boy, injured when he picked up a grenade, recovers at a hospital in Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region in Ethiopia. The Director of the World Health Organization (WHO)...