TUESDAY July 4, 2023: 'ROAD TO PEACE? Tigray-Ethiopia Truce' by photo-journalist Ximena Borrazas-SOPA: It has been eight months since the Ethiopian government signed a peace deal with rebels from the country's northern Tigray region after two years of a brutal civil war. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Many children and families still suffer. And the region's economy is in ruins. The war erupted in November 2020 with human rights violations by all sides, including extrajudicial killings, rapes and looting, all documented by United Nations agencies, and yet all sides deny the allegations. The truce has enabled international aid deliveries to resume to parts of Tigray. But the prospects for peace remain uncertain. Welcome to 'ROAD TO PEACE? Tigray-Ethiopia Truce'
© zReportage.com Story of the Week #895: TUESDAY July 4, 2023: 'ROAD TO PEACE? Tigray-Ethiopia Truce' by photo-journalist Ximena Borrazas-SOPA: It has been eight months since the Ethiopian government signed a peace deal with rebels from the country's northern Tigray region after two years of a brutal civil war. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Many children and families still suffer. And the region's economy is in ruins. The war erupted in November 2020 with human rights violations by all sides, including extrajudicial killings, rapes and looting, all documented by United Nations agencies, and yet all sides deny the allegations. The truce has enabled international aid deliveries to resume to parts of Tigray. But the prospects for peace remain uncertain. Welcome to 'ROAD TO PEACE? Tigray-Ethiopia Truce'

Dozens of women and children wait in line at the Don Bosco humanitarian aid centre in Tigray to receive soup to treat child malnutrition. Almost one out of every three children under the age of five in Tigray is malnourished, according to a United Nations.
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A young girl shows a huge scar on her stomach caused by 'knives and boiling water' a year ago by Eritrean soldiers as they raped her mother during the brutal civil war in Tigray.
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Under a blanket on the ground an elderly 65-year-old woman lays on her deathbed due to malnutrition from famine at the United Nations 'TVET'' refugee camp in the town of Abiy Addi in Tigray. The situation in Tigray is severe with many people dying because of the food shortage.
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A mother talks with a doctor as her child who is suffering from malnutrition waits for treatment at Mekele Central Hospital. Thousands of children are suffering from severe malnutrition and harsh living conditions in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, where an ongoing political conflict has aggravated the crisis.
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A farming family sit in their home in T'afa village in Tigray and explains how Eritrean soldiers set fire to their home during the civil war that tore the northern Ethiopian region apart.
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Two Tigray war amputees sit and wait to begin rehabilitation therapy exercises at a center in Mekelle the capital city of the Tigray region. Both men had legs amputated during the brutal 2 year civil war that tore the northern Ethiopian region apart.
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A woman from a small village near the town of Samre walks near her home. Aid agencies report widespread hunger and hunger-related deaths in Tigray.
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A young girl carries a jerrycan of drinking water on the outskirts of Mekele, the capital of Tigray. The civil war has led to the depletion and destruction of food storage, forcing millions of Tigrayans into famine.
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A toddler sits as other children play on the steps of an ''IDP center'' in the city of Mekele capital of Tigray. Thousands of children are suffering from severe malnutrition and harsh living conditions in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in the aftermath a deadly civil war.
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Young parents with their two children sit on a bed at Mekele central hospital while Embeba, the 4-year-old girl, receives treatment for childhood malnutrition. Almost one out of every three children under the age of five in Tigray is malnourished, according to the United Nations.
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Students at the Don Bosco school in Tigray return to class after a two-year break due to the civil war. The fighting between Ethiopia's federal government and Tigrayan forces left many children orphaned or separated from their families. The impact of those emotional wounds linger for the children, experts say, as the challenges of healing the war-torn nation begin.
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Refugee children from the town of Abiy Addi, shelter at an IDP centre along with 5,000 other displaced people after the deadly Ethiopian civil war.
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