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Band Aid Donates £500,000 For Tigray Refugees

Post author By Beth Holmes
Post date June 13, 2022

Band Aid has donated £500,000 (627,827 USD) to the UN for Ethiopian refugees displaced amid the Tigray War.

Band Aid has donated £500,000 (627,827 USD) to the UN for Ethiopian refugees amid the Tigray War. The ongoing civil war in Ethiopia, between the Tigray Defense Forces, the Ethiopian National Defense Force, and the Ethiopian Federal Police has displaced millions of people since it began in November 2020. Massive human rights abuses including deliberately […]

Tags Band Aid Charitable Trust, Dian Balde, Emma Cherniavsky, Ethiopia, tigray, tigray war, UN, UNHCR

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The Weeknd Donates $1 Million to Ethiopia

Post author By Beth Holmes
Post date April 9, 2021

BLM protesters demonstrate against violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia

The world’s journalists haven’t been allowed into Tigray, a large region in the north of Ethiopia, in years. Most of the world wouldn’t recognize the name. But the area has been under siege by Ethiopia’s military. There have been reports that since a spat of fighting in November between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and […]

Tags Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, abiy ahmed, charity, Ethiopia, genocide, mahibere dego, military, The Weeknd, tigray, United Nations World Food Programme

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