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    The Relief Society of Tigray (abbreviated REST; Tigrinya: ማሕበራዊ ረዲኤት ትግራይ or ማረት, Maret) is an NGO based in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. REST was founded...
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  • setting of "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" Repose (painting), by Manet, c.1871 Le Repos (Picasso), 1932 Rest (Bouguereau), 1879 Relief Society of Tigray, an...
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    The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF; Tigrinya: ህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ, lit. 'Popular Struggle for the Freedom of Tigray'), also called the Tigrayan...
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    boxes, or other symbols instead of Ethiopic characters. The Tigray Region (or simply Tigray; officially the Tigray National Regional State) is the northernmost...
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  • Kindeya Gebrehiwot (category Alumni of the University of Wales)
    harvesting. Board Chairman of the Tigrai Development Association Board Member of the Relief Society of Tigray Board member of Mekelle 70 Enderta F.C. Actively...
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  • of the Tigray War (January to June 2021) is part of a chronology of the military engagements of the Tigray War, a civil war that began in the Tigray Region...
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    Belesat (category Tigray Region)
    Inticho woreda of the Tigray Region in Ethiopia. The earthen dam that holds the reservoir was built in 1997 by the Relief Society of Tigray. Dam height:...
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    The Tigray War was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 to 3 November 2022. It was a civil war that was primarily fought in the Tigray Region...
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    Enticho (woreda) (category Districts of Tigray Region)
    constructed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the 1990s. Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA)...
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    onset of the Tigray War in November 2020, acute food shortages leading to death and starvation became widespread in northern Ethiopia, and the Tigray, Afar...
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    Dibdibo (category Tigray Region)
    Inticho woreda of the Tigray Region in Ethiopia. The earthen dam that holds the reservoir was built in 1999 by the Relief Society of Tigray. Dam height:...
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    Tigray Region, in northern Ethiopia. With over 460,000 customers, the DECSI is one of the four largest MFIs in Africa. In 1993, the Relief Society of...
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    May Leiba (category Tigray Region)
    woreda of the Tigray Region in Ethiopia. It is named after the May Leiba River. The earthen dam that holds the reservoir was built in 1998 by the Relief Society...
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    Aqushela (category Tigray Region)
    Tanqwa-Abergele woreda of the Tigray Region in Ethiopia. The earthen dam that holds the reservoir was built in 1999 by the Relief Society of Tigray. Dam height:...
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    Chini (reservoir) (category Tigray Region)
    woreda, Tigray Region, Ethiopia). The 151-metres long earthen dam that holds the reservoir was built in 1993 by the Relief Society of Tigray. It was mainly...
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    The Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement, commonly called the Pretoria Agreement or the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA), is a peace treaty between...
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    government militias, in particular in Eritrea and Tigray. It also encouraged international agencies to set up relief programs in regions with surplus grain production...
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  • as political and military struggles are concerned, in 1978 the Relief Society of Tigray (REST)—an organization largely funded by NGOs in the United States...
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    humanitarian relief are generally under unanimous criticism. Such was the case for the Derg regime, preventing relief to the population of Tigray in the 1980s...
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    estimated 150,000–200,000 had died of starvation by March 2022. In the Tigray Region alone, 89% of people are in need of food aid, with those facing severe...
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    Casualties of the Tigray War refers to the civilian and military deaths and injuries in the Tigray War that started in November 2020, in which rape and...
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    Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present) (category Prelude to the Tigray War)
    EPRDF chairman, and there were hopes of peace under his successor Abiy Ahmed. However, war broke out in the Tigray Region, with resurgent regional and...
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  • Alex de Waal (category Academics of the London School of Economics)
    75 years" In the outset of the Tigray War, de Waal and Mulugeta Gebrehiwot published reports surrounding the situation in Tigray with regards to Eritrea's...
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    in Ethiopia Relief Society of Tigray Self-supply of water and sanitation Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Rehabilitation in Tigray (SAERT) Joint...
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    and Sudan, seeking relief from starvation. By the end of 1973, famine had claimed the lives of about 300,000 peasants of Tigray and Welo, and thousands...
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  • Germany, and Japan. Catholic Relief Services Food for the Hungry Relief Society of Tigray and World Vision USAID's Office of Food for Peace (FFP) UN World...
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    the first century AD, the Aksumite Kingdom rose to power in the modern Tigray Region with its capital at Aksum and grew into a major power on the Red...
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    process encompasses the series of proposals, meetings, agreements and actions that aimed to resolve the Tigray War. A number of proposals for peace negotiations...
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    Tigray to secede from Ethiopia. Previous resentments between ethnic Tigray and Amhara rulers were seeking recognition as the legitimate defender of Ethiopianism...
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    be spared. That is why he was well-received in Tigray. They started to heave a collective sigh of relief, but that was premature. The reverse happened...
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