Author: Unknown
Published on: 11/11/2026 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Families who fled Western Tigray have spent years waiting to return home. Mattresses, cooking utensils and personal belongings have replaced school furniture. What was supposed to be temporary shelter is now where children are growing up Federal forces and allied fighters counterattacked, retaking Mekelle on October 4. Fighting continued elsewhere in the region, but the change in regional leadership has not ended the fighting. Human Rights Watch warned the United Nations Doctors at Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle said the facility lacked sufficient supplies of essential medicines. Patients increasingly being asked to buy prescribed drugs from private pharmacies. Years of conflict have damaged health infrastructure and deplete Atsbeha, another former fighter, joined the military in 2020, abandoning his university studies. He now hopes to return to civilian life and find work. But renewed fighting threatens to undermine a programme that depends on security We don’t want our children to experience another one. All we want is to return home and live normally.
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