Tekezé River
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The Tekezé or Täkkäze River, also spelled Takkaze, is a major river of Ethiopia. For part of its course it forms a section of the westernmost border of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The river is also known as the Setit as it joins the Nile tributary Atbarah River just over the border in Sudan. According to materials published by the Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency, the Tekezé River is 608 kilometers (378 mi) long. The canyon which it has created is the deepest in Africa and one of the deepest in the world, at some points having a depth of over 2000 meters.
Tekezé gorge, a few km downstream from the reservoir
A crocodile along the Tekezé River
A crossing at the Tekezé
Tigray War
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The Tigray War was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 to 3 November 2022. The war was primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied to the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.
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Image: Mass graves in Maikadra have been prayed for and their bodies laid to rest in a church cemetery (cropped 2)
Image: Internally displaced people in Shire Tigray April 2021 05
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