Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: Truce brings little respite

Channel 4 News published this video item, entitled “Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: Truce brings little respite” – below is their description.

In northern Ethiopia, after months of brutal fighting the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front have reached a truce.

But for the people of Tigray, trapped between hunger and brutality in the north where the government has enforced an economic blockade and being imprisoned in a detention camp if they move south – the calm has brought little respite.

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