The Financial Times published on 15 January 2023 an article titled "War in Tigray May Have Killed 600,000 People, Peace Mediator Says" by David Pilling and Andres Schipani.
African Union envoy and former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo said in an interview that about 600,000 died in the civil war that began in Ethiopia in November 2020. A research group at the University of Ghent agrees that this number may be close to accurate but others suggest casualty figures should be treated with extreme caution.
