Why Ethiopia-Tigray crisis must be seen as a continental tragedy

Selome Girma chants as she marches with others in protest of the civilian casualties and abuses caused as a result of a war that has so far lasted a year in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray, near the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., November 4, 2021. [Reuters, Leah Millis]

Ethiopia is among states that are synonymous with natural and man-made tragedies. It is haemorrhaging because its people have engaged in bloodletting over who should exercise what power over other Ethiopians. This tragedy threatens to spill into neighbouring countries, Kenya included.