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Ethiopia: OLF Chairman's Residence Attacked At Night
Addis Standard, 4 May 2021
Reports of an attack on the residence of the chairman of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) Dawud Ibsa have been coming out since last night. Addis Standard received footage of the… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Govt Designates Two Tigrayan Groups as Terrorist Organisations
Ethiopian Herald, 2 May 2021
Council of Ministers has passed a resolution to designate Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and Shene as terrorist organizations. Read more »
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Ethiopia: Tepid International Response to Tigray Conflict Fuels Horrific Violations - Amnesty International
AI London, 4 May 2021
African and other world leaders must urgently speak out and do more to stem the ferocious tide of human rights and international humanitarian law violations in the armed conflict… Read more »
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Ethiopia: More Than 20 Civilians Killed in Two Separate Attacks By Armed Groups
Addis Standard, 1 May 2021
At least 21 civilians were killed in two separate attacks. Fifteen passengers were killed by gunmen in a bus traveling from Bure town in West Gojam zone, Amhara regional state, to… Read more »
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East Africa: Bring All Tigray Civil War Parties to the Negotiating Table for a Peaceful Horn
Nation, 2 May 2021
Dictatorship and democracy are as old as the hills. Despite the defeat of Fascism in 1945 and the fall of Soviet Communism in 1989, countries have swung, like a roller coaster,… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Opposition Parties Ask UN to Ensure Eritrean Forces Leave Tigray
East African, 30 April 2021
Three opposition parties in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region have called for an internationally monitored immediate withdrawal of Eritrean forces from the northern Tigray region… Read more »
Ethiopia Names Tigray Opposition Forces as Terror Groups
The Ethiopian government has declared the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front and Oromo Liberation Front-Shene as terrorist organisations. According to the Council of Ministers, the TPLF and OLF-Shene have been carrying out terror attacks on innocent civilians and public property.
This while Associated Press recently reported that the government was allegedly arresting thousands of ethnic Tigrayans across the country. Fighting is still underway in certain parts of Tigray, despite the government saying that the war that broke out in November of 2020 was over.
The East African reports that political parties in the region wrote a letter to the UN and the international community to push for the immediate withdrawal of the Eritrean forces involved in the war and hold them accountable for the war crimes and human rights abuses they have committed in the region over the past six months.
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Eritrea's government says it will start pulling its soldiers out of Ethiopia's Tigray region, recognising for the first time the presence of its troops in the war-torn region, Ra Read more »
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As the conflict in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region enters its sixth month, the United Nations Security Council has broken its silence and called for scaled-up humanitarian access ... Read more »
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says that the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray province is stripping tens of thousands of children of their rights, plunging them ... Read more »
As reports of atrocities by fighters emerge in Tigray, women are struggling to feed their families. The World Food Programme provided urgently needed supplies to more than 28,000 more people on March 29.
