Ethiopia: MSF condemns widespread attacks on Tigray clinics

Doctors without Borders charity says clinics in the region were looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate manner.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has  condemned a “deliberate and generalised” programme of attacking clinics in Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region, which faces collapse of health services following months of military conflict. The condemnation was issued on Monday. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military campaign in Tigray last November after blaming the region’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), for attacks on federal army camps. Abiy, winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, leaned on forces from the country’s Amhara region, which neighbours Tigray, to secure western and southern Tigray once the TPLF retreated from those areas and multiple reports have already emerged of dire conditions.