Sisay Lemma had the best result of his career but was whisked off amid fears he could infect fellow medal holders with COVID.
Forced starvation is the latest chapter in a conflict where ethnic Tigrayans have been massacred,gang-raped and expelled.
The survivors of a massacre say they’re still searching for more than 100 people days after one of the deadliest battles of the Ethiopian conflict.
Residents told reporters they had begged Ethiopian soldiers to stay and protect them “or at least give us their Kalashnikovs,but they refused”.
The Ethiopian government earlier called a ceasefire but the People’s Liberation Front said it anticipated retaliation and called on residents to rally behind it.
Medecines Sans Frontiers said three aid workers “paid for their work with their lives in the latest attack on humanitarian workers in war-torn Tigray.
Ambulances trying to reach the wounded in the Ethiopian market town were turned back by soldiers but witnesses said bodies were strewn through the streets.
Not long ago,Abiy Ahmed,whose country voted in long-delayed parliamentary elections on Monday,was a shining hope for the country and continent.
Tigsti’s mother walked for 12 days to get her famished newborn to a clinic in Tigray. The UN says this is the world’s worst famine conditions in a decade.
The latest move will result in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund withholding funding to a nation led by a Nobel laureate Prime Minister.
Condemned by the US,Ethiopia’s Nobel peace prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has acknowledged atrocities and withdrawn Eritrean troops from Tigray.