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The Glories of Aksum

The New York Review of Books 16 Sep 2021
Instead, scholars have turned to Africa and Asia to discover ancient [] .
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Ethiopia rights commission, UN to investigate Tigray human rights abuses

Jurist 26 Mar 2021
The EHRC, an independent national human rights institution,�published its preliminary findings Wednesday on grave human rights violations in Aksum, a city in central Tigray, in November. Aksum is part of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage list.
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Grave Human Rights Violation in Aksum

Awate 25 Mar 2021
This report is issued by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission�which is ...
photo: Creative Commons / Bair175 - CC BY-SA 4.0
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
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Ethiopia: Over 100 civilians killed by Eritrean army

Anadolu Agency 25 Mar 2021
"Residents, persons displaced from other parts of Tigray, and visitors from other parts of Ethiopia who came to mark the annual Aksum Tsion celebration, were killed by Eritrean soldiers," the report said.
photo: AP / Nariman El-Mofty
A Tigrayan woman who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, prays after Sunday Mass ends at a church, near Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Nov. 29, 2020
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Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: A rare view inside the conflict zone

BBC News 20 Mar 2021
Since a conflict broke out in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region last year, access has been severely limited to journalists and aid agencies alike ... 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 ... .
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Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: How a massacre in the sacred city of Aksum unfolded

BBC News 26 Feb 2021
Eritrean troops killed hundreds in Aksum in Ethiopia's Tigray region, witnesses tell Amnesty and the BBC ... .
photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh
Somali government soldiers run to take positions during ongoing fighting with gunmen, after a suicide car bomb attack on a government building in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, March 23, 2019.
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Somali troops may have been drawn into Ethiopia’s civil war

Mail Guardian South Africa 20 Jan 2021
The Somali publication quotes Abdisalam Guled, a former leader in Somali’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) from 2013 to 2017, who says he is in contact with an Ethiopian official and a civilian woman who said Somali fighters were present around Aksum, a border ...
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'Lost' ancient town uncovered in Ethiopia was once part of the powerful Aksum Empire that ...

The Daily Mail 10 Dec 2019
A village in Ethiopia has been discovered which belonged to the little-known Empire of Aksum - a bustling, sprawling metropolis to rival Rome that survived for centuries ... 'The Empire of Aksum was one of the world's most influential ancient civilisations, but it remains one of the least widely known.
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Ethiopia mosque ban: 'Our sacred city of Aksum must be protected'

BBC News 24 Jun 2019
Aziz Mohammed, a traditional doctor who has lived in Aksum for 20 years, says some Muslims are forced to pray in the open because of the absence of mosques ... Similar differences surfaced in Aksum about 50 years ago when Emperor Haile Selassie was in power in Ethiopia ... "Though we need a mosque in Aksum, we can't force them.
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Aksum: The holy city where mosques are banned

Joy Online 24 Jun 2019
For Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians, the ancient city of Aksum is a sacred place, home to the Biblical Queen of Sheba and Ark of the Covenant ... "Aksum is our Mecca," declares senior cleric Godefa Merha, who believes that just as churches are banned in Islam's holiest site, mosques cannot exist in Aksum. "Aksum is a holy place.
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