I RESIGNED OVER WAR CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN ETHIOPIA. I WANT JUSTICE

In 2020, at the age of 28, Filsan Abdi became the youngest minister and the first Somali Ethiopian to be appointed to the Ethiopian government. She resigned as minister for women, children and youth at the height of the war in Tigray last year because of the government’s failure to hold perpetrators of war crimes – including mass rape – to account. She remains the only senior official to resign in protest over the conflict. She says there has still been no accountability or justice for the women and children damaged by the fighting.