Ethiopia's Civil War Is Becoming A Humanitarian Crisis
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🗓️ 10 August 2021
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Summary
NPR's Eyder Peralta visited the war-torn region in May and spoke with the people at the center of the conflict.
The United Nations says more than 400,000 people are now living in famine conditions in Ethiopia, putting them at risk of starvation if the country's civil war doesn't let up.
The United States is the country's largest foreign aid donor. And the person who controls that funding currently is Samantha Power, administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She spoke with Ari Shapiro about she learned from her recent trip the area.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there friends, before we start, I want you to know that today's episode contains |
| 0:04.6 | graphic descriptions of violence, so take care while listening. |
| 0:11.3 | For days now, along a river in Sudan, bodies have been washing up on shore. |
| 0:18.0 | We were called in about five days back when the first body started appearing, since then |
| 0:22.5 | we've been burying people nearly daily. |
| 0:24.6 | Al Jazeera spoke with some of the Ethiopian refugees who have been collecting, identifying, |
| 0:29.9 | and burying them. |
| 0:31.5 | And significantly, there reports that some of the dead washing ashore have tattoos or |
| 0:37.4 | facial markings known among the Tigrayi people. |
| 0:40.2 | Most come with their hands tied behind their backs. |
| 0:42.7 | Some had gunshots wounds in the head, others in the back. |
| 0:46.3 | We buried more than 40 so far. |
| 0:49.1 | Now Tigrayi is at the center of a civil war that broke out last November, after rebels |
| 0:53.2 | there attacked an Ethiopian military base. |
| 0:56.4 | And Prime Minister Abid Ahmed responded. |
| 0:59.4 | And since then, the political fight has become an ethnic one, with accusations that troops |
| 1:04.4 | are no longer distinguishing civilians from the rebel fighters. |
| 1:09.0 | In Tigrayi, entire towns have been destroyed. |
| 1:11.6 | When people in those towns, the victims of rape and murder. |
| 1:16.2 | What are the rules? |
| 1:17.7 | They don't abide by any rules. |
| 1:20.4 | Dr. Reya Isias is the clinical director of a hospital in the Tigrayi region. |
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