{"id":46619,"date":"2026-09-28T07:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46619"},"modified":"2026-09-28T07:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:26:33","slug":"human-rights-watch-calls-for-tigray-communications-restoration","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/human-rights-watch-calls-for-tigray-communications-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch calls for Tigray communications restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Human Rights Watch is calling on Ethiopian authorities to restore communications in the northern Tigray region.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The organisation says the blackout is hindering humanitarian access.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nInternet monitoring group NetBlocks confirmed on Friday that internet access had been disrupted in the region.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The rights group is also calling for an investigation into a possible war crime involving an Ethiopian government airstrike on a residential compound in Tigray on August 20.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The developments come amid renewed fighting in Tigray, Amhara and Afar between Ethiopian forces and fighters affiliated with the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica\/ Thuto Ngobeni&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22449,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-46619","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Human Rights Watch callis on Ethiopian authorities to restore communications","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46620,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46619\/revisions\/46620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}