Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War. Conversation around the newly published book

With Catherine Dom (Independent scholar)

On the night of 3 to 4 November 2020, war broke out in Tigray. Soon after Mekelle was bombed, people were stunned: should they leave the city? How to protect their loved ones? Where to get supplies? For two years, the war redefined the daily lives of Mekelle’s residents; while the capital of Tigray was not the scene of violent armed fighting unlike the countryside and other towns in Tigray, every aspect of urban life, both public and private, was turned upside down by the blockade imposed on the...