Tigray’s cycling teams, including the women of coach Tadesse’s Mekelle 70 Enderta club, are competing on the road again, a small sign of the fragile normality that has returned after two years of devastating war. Hunger and insecurity persist in several areas but sport, at least, has resumed.Cycling officially resumed in Tigray in June 2023, eight months after a ceasefire ended the war, with a competition featuring teams from every corner of Ethiopia. Tigray’s cyclists won all but two of the races. At the African Games, held in Ghana in March, all six women chosen to represent Ethiopia came from Tigray, including three from Mekelle 70 Enderta. Serkalem and Genet were among them. Coach Tadesse, who shows off photos of the games on his phone, counts this among his proudest achievements.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
