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The world is ignoring Tigray’s year-long nightmare of war Magdalene Abraha

n 4 November 2020 the world was occupied with the US election. For myself and many others with family and friends in Tigray, however, that day marked the beginning of a continuing nightmare. And it’s one that the world has, mostly, ignored. When on that day the Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel peace prize winner, announced a military offensive in Tigray, the region was cut off from the world. Phone and internet was cut,

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