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Trigay War

Posted inImmigration

Chicago’s Diaspora Communities Reflect on the Tigray War

by Max Blaisdell March 23, 2022

ust as Chicago’s Ukrainians have reacted with alarm and dismay at the Russian invasion of their homeland, so have Chicago’s Ethiopians and Eritreans as they closely watch events in the Horn of Africa. Fighting there has left thousands dead and famine is looming. The spark that lit the fuse of the current conflict was when […]

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