Many people are dying of hunger and starvation in the Wag Hemra zone of north Wollo in the Amhara regional state, residents who fled to Bahir Dar and Ebnat, as well as local officials, told the BBC Amharic. Tesfaye Gebre,…
Rebels from the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) killed more than 100 youths in an unprovoked attack on civilians in Kombolcha, one of two towns the rebel group captured over the weekend, the Ethiopia Government Communication department said. “The terrorist…
Dire conditions sparks a mass exodus of residents from Lalibela Town Residents of Lalibela are leaving en masse the town which is under the control of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces due to a severe lack of resources,…
Health facilities across Amhara and Afar regions have been deliberately vandalized and destroyed, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health announced. The ministry said more than 1,500 health facilities have been severely damaged in Amhara and Afar states in a deliberate attack…
Hundreds of civilians have fled Kobo, a town in north Wollo, after the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters attack last week that left “many” dead. The TPLF fighters attacked the town of Kobo and surrounding rural towns of Wollo…
The Aba Gada leaders of the Guji-Oromo people, an ethnic Oromo subgroup who inhabit southern Ethiopia, have declared the Shene-Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) – a group that operates in the bushes of Southwestern Ethiopia as an “enemy of the Oromo…
After rebel forces from the Tigray region mounted attacks in neighbouring Amhara region, hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes in the North Wollo zone and flee south in search of a safer environment. Most…
Tigray rebel forces killed more than 200 civilians in a village in Amhara region, residents and local officials said. The killings in a village called Chenna Teklehaymanot of Dabat woreda took place during the rebel forces’ five days presence in…
Ethiopian troops and Tigray rebels have been engaged in heavy fighting near the symbolic town of Lalibela, eyewitnesses have told Ethiopia Observer. According to three eyewitnesses, the federal army had launched a ground offensive over the weeknd to gain control…
The Ethiopian government said Monday it had driven the Tigray rebels out of the garrison of Debre Zebit, a hilltop town located along “the China road”, that links the 300km east-west road from Woreta to Woldiya. The state media said…