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Over the last eight months, conflict in Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, has killed thousands of people, displaced two million and pushed 350,000 to the brink of famine. The fighting began last November when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a 2019 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, ordered a military offensive against regional forces in Tigray in response to an attack on a military base housing government troops.
Robert Patman is a Professor of International Relations at Otago University, and an expert on the Horn of Africa. He joins the show to discuss.
Tigray people stage a protest against the government on the distribution condition of food and on the conflict that displaced people, on 8 March, 2021. Photo: Minasse Wondimu Hailu / Anadolu Agency via AFP
