(CNN)A tanker carrying oil docked at on Thursday -- the first such ship to berth this year in the country's Houthi-controlled north, where fuel is desperately needed to distribute food and to keep the country's hospitals from shuttering.The arrival of the ship, the Gabon-registered Thuruya, follows a UN announcement on Wednesday that the internationally recognized government of Yemen -- supported by Saudi Arabia and its military -- had agreed to allow four ships carrying fuel to unload at Hodeidah. It was not clear if the relaxation was temporary or a permanent change. A CNN investigation...…(CNN)A tanker carrying oil docked at on Thursday -- the first such ship to berth this year in the country's Houthi-controlled north, where fuel is desperately needed to distribute food and to keep the country's hospitals from shuttering.The arrival of the ship, the Gabon-registered Thuruya, follows a UN announcement on Wednesday that the internationally recognized government of Yemen -- supported by Saudi Arabia and its military -- had agreed to allow four ships carrying fuel to unload at Hodeidah. It was not clear if the relaxation was temporary or a permanent change. A CNN investigation...WW…

(CNN)Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Tuesday that his government would hold accountable any soldier found responsible for rape or looting in the country's conflict region of Tigray, just days after against women."Reports indicate that atrocities have been committed in Tigray region," Abiy wrote in a post on his Twitter account. "Regardless of the TPLF propaganda of exaggeration, any soldier responsible for raping our women & looting communities in the region will be held accountable as their mission is to protect," he said, referring to the Tigray People's Liberation Front, the...…(CNN)Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Tuesday that his government would hold accountable any soldier found responsible for rape or looting in the country's conflict region of Tigray, just days after against women."Reports indicate that atrocities have been committed in Tigray region," Abiy wrote in a post on his Twitter account. "Regardless of the TPLF propaganda of exaggeration, any soldier responsible for raping our women & looting communities in the region will be held accountable as their mission is to protect," he said, referring to the Tigray People's Liberation Front, the...WW…

Hamdayet, Sudan -- More evidence of sexual violence being used as a deliberate weapon of war is emerging from , where an armed conflict has been raging for months.Women are being gang-raped, drugged and held hostage, according to medical records and testimonies from survivors shared with CNN. In one case a woman's vagina was stuffed with stones, nails and plastic, according to a video seen by CNN and testimony from one of the doctors who treated her. CNN has spoken with nine doctors in Ethiopia and one in a Sudanese refugee camp who say they've seen an alarming increase in sexual assault...…Hamdayet, Sudan -- More evidence of sexual violence being used as a deliberate weapon of war is emerging from , where an armed conflict has been raging for months.Women are being gang-raped, drugged and held hostage, according to medical records and testimonies from survivors shared with CNN. In one case a woman's vagina was stuffed with stones, nails and plastic, according to a video seen by CNN and testimony from one of the doctors who treated her. CNN has spoken with nine doctors in Ethiopia and one in a Sudanese refugee camp who say they've seen an alarming increase in sexual assault...WW…

Hamdayet, Sudan -- More evidence of sexual violence being used as a deliberate weapon of war is emerging from , where an armed conflict has been raging for months.Women are being gang-raped, drugged and held hostage, according to medical records and testimonies from survivors shared with CNN. In one case a woman's vagina was stuffed with stones, nails and plastic, according to a video seen by CNN and testimony from one of the doctors who treated her. CNN has spoken with nine doctors in Ethiopia and one in a Sudanese refugee camp who say they've seen an alarming increase in sexual assault...…Hamdayet, Sudan -- More evidence of sexual violence being used as a deliberate weapon of war is emerging from , where an armed conflict has been raging for months.Women are being gang-raped, drugged and held hostage, according to medical records and testimonies from survivors shared with CNN. In one case a woman's vagina was stuffed with stones, nails and plastic, according to a video seen by CNN and testimony from one of the doctors who treated her. CNN has spoken with nine doctors in Ethiopia and one in a Sudanese refugee camp who say they've seen an alarming increase in sexual assault...WW…

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All of the witnesses to this massacre have been given pseudonyms at their request due to fears of retribution.Abraham began burying the bodies in the morning and didn't stop until nightfall. The corpses, some dressed in white church robes drenched in blood, were scattered in arid fields, scrubby farmlands and a dry riverbed. Others had been shot on their doorsteps with their hands bound with belts. Among the dead were priests, old men, women, entire families and a group of more than 20 Sunday school children, some as young as 14, according to eyewitnesses, parents and their teacher. Abraham...…All of the witnesses to this massacre have been given pseudonyms at their request due to fears of retribution.Abraham began burying the bodies in the morning and didn't stop until nightfall. The corpses, some dressed in white church robes drenched in blood, were scattered in arid fields, scrubby farmlands and a dry riverbed. Others had been shot on their doorsteps with their hands bound with belts. Among the dead were priests, old men, women, entire families and a group of more than 20 Sunday school children, some as young as 14, according to eyewitnesses, parents and their teacher. Abraham...WW…

Hamdayat, on the border between Sudan and Ethiopia (CNN)Huyeet is limping as he crosses the border, his leg bandaged with dirty gauze. As he enters Sudan, fleeing Ethiopia's province, border guards direct him to the first aid tent nearby. The medical facilities here are basic and Huyeet grimaces as the grimy dressing is unraveled, revealing a gunshot wound. Huyeet is 24, and like many of the people CNN met as they crossed the border, he refuses to give his surname. Even here, so far from home, he says he feels unsafe. Huyeet says that when the Ethiopian Army captured his hometown, Humera,...…Hamdayat, on the border between Sudan and Ethiopia (CNN)Huyeet is limping as he crosses the border, his leg bandaged with dirty gauze. As he enters Sudan, fleeing Ethiopia's province, border guards direct him to the first aid tent nearby. The medical facilities here are basic and Huyeet grimaces as the grimy dressing is unraveled, revealing a gunshot wound. Huyeet is 24, and like many of the people CNN met as they crossed the border, he refuses to give his surname. Even here, so far from home, he says he feels unsafe. Huyeet says that when the Ethiopian Army captured his hometown, Humera,...WW…

By , , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) have taken control of Mekelle, the capital of Tigray region, according from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.The city was under fierce bombardment earlier on Saturday, a humanitarian source on the ground and eyewitnesses who have fled the city told CNN.The government’s military operations have now ceased in the region, he said in a .Federal police will continue working to round up members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Thousands of Northern Command officers held by the TPLF have now been...…By , , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) have taken control of Mekelle, the capital of Tigray region, according from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.The city was under fierce bombardment earlier on Saturday, a humanitarian source on the ground and eyewitnesses who have fled the city told CNN.The government’s military operations have now ceased in the region, he said in a .Federal police will continue working to round up members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Thousands of Northern Command officers held by the TPLF have now been...WW…

By , , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) have taken control of Mekelle, the capital of Tigray region, according from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.The city was under fierce bombardment earlier on Saturday, a humanitarian source on the ground and eyewitnesses who have fled the city told CNN.The government’s military operations have now ceased in the region, he said in a .Federal police will continue working to round up members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Thousands of Northern Command officers held by the TPLF have now been...…By , , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) have taken control of Mekelle, the capital of Tigray region, according from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.The city was under fierce bombardment earlier on Saturday, a humanitarian source on the ground and eyewitnesses who have fled the city told CNN.The government’s military operations have now ceased in the region, he said in a .Federal police will continue working to round up members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Thousands of Northern Command officers held by the TPLF have now been...WW…

By , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister, who was toppled in 1989 by former dictator , died Thursday from coronavirus.Al-Mahdi, who was 84, died in the United Arab Emirates, where he had traveled for treatment after contracting the virus, his family said in a statement.He led Sudan as prime minister twice, first in the 1960s and again from 1986 until the 1989 coup.As the head of the opposition National Umma Party, Al-Mahdi became one of Bashir’s fiercest critics and lived long enough to witness Bashir’s amid mass...…By , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister, who was toppled in 1989 by former dictator , died Thursday from coronavirus.Al-Mahdi, who was 84, died in the United Arab Emirates, where he had traveled for treatment after contracting the virus, his family said in a statement.He led Sudan as prime minister twice, first in the 1960s and again from 1986 until the 1989 coup.As the head of the opposition National Umma Party, Al-Mahdi became one of Bashir’s fiercest critics and lived long enough to witness Bashir’s amid mass...WW…