October 02, 2023
Ethiopia: Sidama Federalist Party Calls for Investigations, Accountability in Younger Region
The Sidama Federalist Party (SFP) issued a strongly worded six-point position statement yesterday, drawing attention to the ongoing political and social issues in Ethiopia's Sidama… Read more »
September 16, 2023
Ethiopia: Oromia Govt Says Reports of Detention Facilities Are 'False Information'
The government of Oromia regional state has in a short statement denied reports of detention facilities in the various places in the regional state as "false information" designed… Read more »
September 15, 2023
Ethiopia: Rights Body Reveals Extrajudicial Killings By Govt Forces in Amhara Region
Ethiopian Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) latest report on rights abuses againist civilians, especially in the Amhara region, in the context of the ongoing militarized conflict… Read more »
September 13, 2023
Ethiopia: One of Four Youths Arrested By Govt Forces in Anfillo, Western Oromia Found Dead
One of the four youths who were arrested by government forces in Anfilloo district of Kellem Wollega zone in Western Oromia has been found dead, residents told Addis Standard. Read more »
September 09, 2023
Ethiopia: A Traveller From Addis Abeba With Suspected Cocaine Worth $700,000 Arrested At Hong Kong Airport
Customs officers at the Hong Kong International Airport seized about 900 grams of suspected cocaine worth $700,000 from a 48-year-old male passenger who arrived in Hong Kong from… Read more »
September 06, 2023
Ethiopia: Ethiopia Wraps Up Public Consultations On Transitional Justice Policy Options
The team of experts leading public consultations on transitional justice policy options in Ethiopia under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice has revealed the conclusion of the… Read more »
September 07, 2023
Ethiopia: News - CPJ Expresses Deep Concern Over Arrest of Three More Journalists in Ethiopia
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed its deep concern about the arrest of three more journalists under the state of emergency that was declared in the conflict… Read more »
September 05, 2023
East Africa: Eritrean Forces Commit 'War Crimes, Possible Crimes Against Humanity' in Tigray Months After Peace Truce - Amnesty International
Soldiers from Eritrea continued to commit war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in Ethiopia's Tigray region after a ceasefire agreement was signed between the Ethiopian… Read more »
September 01, 2023
Ethiopia: Saudi Arabia's Killing and Inhumane Mistreatment of Ethiopian Migrants With Impunity Must End
The recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) uncovering the killing of hundreds of Ethiopian migrants by the Saudi Arabia border guards at the Yemen-Saudi border, which was also… Read more »
August 29, 2023
Ethiopia: At Least 183 Killed in Clashes in Amhara Since July - 250 Tigrayans Detained in New Wave in Western Tigray: UN
UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner said "at least 183 people have been killed in clashes in Amhara region since July, and expressed its concerns at "the deteriorating… Read more »
Ethiopia: Fallout Over Administrative Restructuring Claims Lives Near Arba Minch, Southern Ethiopia Region
At least 17 people were killed and many injured in clashes between government security forces and local residents in the Gamo zone's Shura kebele near Arba Minch city in the newly… Read more »
August 03, 2023
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Army Member Accused of Killing Four, Injuring Three in Kebri Dehar, Somali Region
At least four people were killed in Kebri Dehar city, in Somali regional state, after a soldier purportedly identified as a member of Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF)… Read more »
August 12, 2023
Ethiopia: Command Post Admits Civilian Deaths in Amhara Region, Reveals List of Suspects Under Custody
The Command Post established to oversee the six-months state of emergency in Amhara region said "innocent lives" have been lost, properties destroyed and looted in the ongoing… Read more »
August 07, 2023
Ethiopia: Court Upholds NEBE Ruling Declining Request to Establish TPLF As New Regional Party
The Federal High Court has ruled upholding the National Election Board of Ethiopia's (NEBE) decision declining a request to register Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) as a… Read more »
August 04, 2023
Ethiopia: Council of Ministers Green Lights State of Emergency Declaration in Restive Amhara Region
Ethiopia's Council of Ministers (CoM) in its 23rd regular meeting has this morning passed a unanimous decision for a declaration of a state of emergency in the restive Amhara… Read more »
July 31, 2023
Ethiopia: Condemning Abhorrent Food Aid Theft By Cutting Aid Is Punishing Victims Twice
Since the onset of a "reformist government" under the leadership of the ruling Prosperity Party in April 2018, Ethiopians are enduring a cocktail of deadly humanitarian crises,… Read more »
July 30, 2023
Ethiopia: Residents Call for Urgent Intervention After Seven Killed in Latest Armed Attack
Local residents of East Meskan Woreda, in Gurage Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and people's (SNNP) regional state, are calling for a government intervention and… Read more »
July 27, 2023
Ethiopia: Addis Abeba Trade Bureau Takes Actions Against Illicit Activities, Closes Thousands of Businesses
In a sweeping crackdown on non-compliant businesses during the 2015 Ethiopian fiscal year, the Addis Abeba Trade Bureau has shuttered an astounding number of over 22,000… Read more »
July 25, 2023
Ethiopia: U.S. Congress Calls For Sanctions On Perpetrators of Human Rights Abuses in Western Tigray
Three members of the US Congress have written a letter urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen to impose sanctions on individuals… Read more »
July 12, 2023
Ethiopia: Curfew In City of Gambella as Armed Attack Leaves 31 dead, 20 Injured
An armed militia attack on Nuer village in the city of Gambella, the capital of Gambella regional state has resulted in at least 31 fatalities and 20 injuries, according to a… Read more »
Ethiopia: Caffee Oromia Revokes Immunity of Imprisoned Former Nekemte Mayor
The Oromia regional state's council, Caffee Oromia, has revoked the immunity of one of its members, the former mayor of Nekemte City Tolera Ragassa who was imprisoned in April… Read more »
July 13, 2023
Ethiopia: Khat Farmers, Exporters in Oromia Battle to Overcome Multilayered Crises Made Worse By Govt Interventions
Farmers and exporters of the lucrative khat crop, an essential stimulant plant, cultivated in vast areas of in the Oromia region are facing an unforeseen socio-economic crisis as a… Read more »
July 17, 2023
Ethiopia: Online Media Outlet Ethiopia Insider Suffers Robbery, Jeopardizing Daily News Production
An online media news outlet, Ethiopia Insider, managed under Haq Media and Communication, fell victim to a robbery last night. Haq Media and Communication issued a statement today,… Read more »
July 11, 2023
Africa: AU Rights Commission Terminates Tigray Probe, No Report After 2 Years
The African Union's Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), had quietly liquidated the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on the Situation in the Tigray Region, the… Read more »
July 07, 2023
Ethiopia: Another Police Officer Shot Dead in Shewa Robit, Amhara Region
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