One of the centres for internally displaced people in the city of Aksum, northern Ethiopia, houses a large number of orphans under the age of 13. Pictured here with Shewit Gebrewahd, 25, who takes care of them, is Merhawit Nuguse, 12, Haymaot Gebrewhad, 13, Liyunesh Khsay, 12, Natnael Atalay, 12, Robel Getachew, nine, and Adyam, five.

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Roman Deslagen, 55, Tsegabrhane Mulaw, 32, Berihu Mulaw, 24, and one-year-old Brkitteka fled their home during the Tigray war. When they returned after a peace pact was signed, they found their home and crops had been destroyed and their animals stolen.

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Gidayn Gebreslaise, 25, and her two children Hiya Lijale and Dagmawi live in a centre for internally displaced people. The two-year civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which began in November 2020, led to the displacement of more than 2 million people, including thousands who fled to Sudan. During her pregnancy with her second child, Gebreslaise was imprisoned because she was born in Tigray.

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