ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Shewarobit, Amhara region, Ethiopia (1st November, 2021): the war is increasing in Ethiopia: government soldiers and the militia of Tigray People Liberation Front are still fighting not only in Tigray region, but also in Amhara and Oromia. The city of Dessie and Kombolcha town counts numerous victims, also civilians. In Shewarobit town, hundreds government soldiers escaping in Debre Birhan direction, and they are exhausted and mad. At the time of this photo, they shoot with kalashnikov on the main road of Shewarobit for have free road, creating the panic between the civilians. Dessie and Kombolcha have been recaptured in the half of December.
This invisible war, about which no one talks, is continuing, causing thousands of deaths and millions of refugees.

AUTHOR
Erberto Zani is an Italian freelance photojournalist based between Parma (Italy) and Basel (Switzerland). Since 2008 he focused on capturing people’s daily life, strength in their environments. His work documents social and environmental issues, systemic inequalities, cultural traditions.
His photo has been published on BBC Newsround, Cnn Travel, Der Spiegel, El Pais, Financial Times, Lonely Planet, The Economist, The Times, among others.

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