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The war in Tigray claimed the lives of 76 athletes, the state’s athletics leader has told the BBC.
The bloody two-year conflict between Ethiopia’s government and forces in the region began in November 2020 and led to thousands of deaths. “We were given a list containing every name,” said Kidane Teklehaimanot, the Tigray Athletics Federation president.
“Seventy-six athletes who represented this nation’s future perished. Two coaches and two officials also died.”
The conflict caused famine-like conditions and ended in November last year after the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front signed a peace deal brokered by the African Union.
(BBC sport)
