Foreign citizens caught up in crackdown on Tigrayans in Ethiopia

Americans and Britons among those detained as part of sweeping arrests critics say are based on ethnicity

American and British citizens have been swept up in Ethiopia's mass detentions of ethnic Tigrayans under a new state of emergency in the country's escalating war.

Thousands of Tigrayans in the capital, Addis Ababa, and across Africa's second most populous country have already been detained and fears of more such detentions soared on Thursday as authorities ordered landlords to register tenants' identities with police. Men armed with sticks were seen on some streets as volunteer groups sought out Tigrayans to report them.