Tigray
What is happening?
On November 4th, 2020, Abiy Ahmed Ali declared a genocidal war on the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Since then 600,000+ civilians have been killed. The people of Tigray remain cut off from the rest of the world with no access to humanitarian aid, telecommunication, and their own bank accounts. The Ethiopian, Amhara, and Eritrean forces have been blocking aid from entering those affected by the ongoing atrocities. The Ethiopian government continues to bombard civilians and ethnically profile Tigrayans all over the country. Tigray needs your help.
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Here are the key concerns
Genocide and ethnic cleansing have been waged on the people of Tigray including those living outside the region, as a result, 2.2 million civilians have been internally displaced, and75K+ have fled to Sudan refugee camps.
Numerous reports of looting and human rights abuses including sexual assault and attacks on refugee camps
UNICEF reported that approximately 2.3 million children have been cut off from humanitarian assistance.
6.5M million people in Tigray are facing man-made famine and need urgent life-saving assistance
Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers have used rape as a weapon of war.
About Tigray
Geography
The Nation of Tigray is located in the most northern part of Ethiopia neighboring Sudan(west), Eritrea(North), Afar Region(East), and Amhara Region(South). Surrounded by beautiful mountains and two big rivers, the Tekeze, which flows into the Nile and Mereb.
Language
Tigrinya is a dialect of Ge'ez, one of the oldest languages in the world. Also, Saho of the Irob people and Kunaminya of the Kunama people are spoken. Historically, Sabean the father of Ge’ez, Ge’ez and Greek also have been used.
The People
The people of Tigray are mostly the end result of marriage between Semetic immigrants and Cushite native. Agriculture is the main source of income. Also, Livestock raising and Gold mining are other ways of income.
Religion
Most Tigrayans are orthodox Christian. Islam and Catholisim come second and third respectively.
History
Tigray contains the core of the ancient Yeha and Aksumite kingdoms and the historic settlements of Yeha and Aksum, the kingdom’s capital; the city of Yeha and later on the city of Axum, a ruined town of great antiquity; and Adwa, the site of a battle in 1896 in which the Italian invading force was defeated by Alula Aba Nega.
Axum(Tigray) is also known for being the second to accept Christainity as a nation in the 4th Century AD and sheltering the Muslim immigrants in the first migration or Hijira in the 7th C AD ultimately saving the Islam as a whole. The Arc of Covenant is believed to be in St. Mary of Zion, in Axum, Tigray
Places of Attraction in Tigray
Tigray is home to 121 rock-hewn churches, believed to represent the single largest group of rock-hewn architecture in the world.
Yeha, The oldest standing structure in Sub-saharan Africa, the Temple of Yeha, is located in Yeha. This is a temple built in the Sabaean style, and dated through comparison with ancient structures in South Arabia to around 700 BC.
Tigray is filled with natural and man-Made wonders. The Obelisk of Axum is a 4th-century CE, 24-meter-tall (79-feet) phonolite stele/obelisk, weighing 160 tons, in the city of Axum in Tigray.
Al-Nejashi
The Negash or Al-Nejashi Mosque dubbed as “The 2nd Mecca” is as old as the faith of Islam. Negash, Ethiopia's first Islamic settlement, was established in the 7th century AD by Muslim refugees who escaped persecution in Mecca, including close relatives of Prophet Mohammed, during his lifetime.
Debre-Damo
Debre-Damo Monastery was founded in the 6th century, on a mountain that is a steeply rising plateau of trapezoidal shape, about 1000 by 400 m in dimension. It sits at an elevation of 2216 m above sea level. The monastery, accessible only by rope up a sheer cliff, 15 m high, is known for its collection of manuscripts and for having the earliest existing church building in Ethiopia that is still in its original style, and only men can visit it.
Abuna Yemata
Abuna Yemata Guh is a monolithic church located in the Hawzen woreda of the Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It is situated at a height of 2,580 meters (8,460 ft)[1] and has to be climbed on foot to reach. It is notable for its dome and wall paintings dating back to the 5th century and its architecture. https://twitter.com/Tigraysfinest
The War on Tigray
The War on Tigray
On November 4, 2020, Abiy Ahmed declared war on the country’s northern region, Tigray. Since then, Tigray has been bombarded by federal, regional and foreign forces, and millions of ethnic minority Tigrayans remain in need of emergency relief, with tens of thousands displaced to neighboring Sudan.
This conflict comes after a period of political uncertainty, following a dangerous pattern of Abiy Ahmed’s violence towards peaceful political dissent and genocidal campaign on the people of Tigray.