200,000 Tigrayans displaced from Western Tigray by Amhara Region Army live in Shire's makeshift camps - BBC
Posted: 19 Mar 2021, 20:52
Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: A rare view inside the conflict zone
Since a conflict broke out in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region last year, access has been severely limited to journalists and aid agencies alike. The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal has finally been allowed in to the region, where he witnessed a dire humanitarian situation.
Every day the city of Shire takes in even more uprooted lives.
Six-year-old Betlehem Tesfaye, who fled from near Aksum, about 50km (31 miles) to the east, lost both her legs in the conflict. Her mother was killed in the same explosion.
Her father spent his savings on her treatment. And now he does not know how he can get prosthetic legs for her.
Like other cities and towns across Tigray, Shire has become a haven for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people forced from their homes by a conflict marked by accusations of human rights violations that include massacres and systematic rape.
But this city of 170,000 people, in the central part of the region, is particularly struggling.
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Since a conflict broke out in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region last year, access has been severely limited to journalists and aid agencies alike. The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal has finally been allowed in to the region, where he witnessed a dire humanitarian situation.
Every day the city of Shire takes in even more uprooted lives.
Six-year-old Betlehem Tesfaye, who fled from near Aksum, about 50km (31 miles) to the east, lost both her legs in the conflict. Her mother was killed in the same explosion.
Her father spent his savings on her treatment. And now he does not know how he can get prosthetic legs for her.
Like other cities and towns across Tigray, Shire has become a haven for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people forced from their homes by a conflict marked by accusations of human rights violations that include massacres and systematic rape.
But this city of 170,000 people, in the central part of the region, is particularly struggling.
Continue reading and view the recent video
. No surprise here though...Agames have just been reaping what your TPLF Junta had sowed for 27 long years. 
