TIGRAY UNIVERSITY LEADER SAYS ETHIOPIAN CIVIL WAR IS DEVASTATING REGION’S UNIVERSITIES
September 22nd, 2022
The leader of a coordination group for universities in the Tigray region that is currently being wracked by military conflict between Tigray militants and the Ethiopian army, supported by armed forces from Eritrea, has said the civil war is devastating Tigrayan higher education.
Dr Kiros Guesh, formerly associate president of Aksum University teaching inorganic chemistry, and a current member of the Tigray State Council and the central committee of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), told UWN the war had been “devastating” for Tigrayan HE.
He was ...
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