Category: Politics
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…
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…
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…
Tigray rebel forces were responsible for the attack, a spokesman for Afar region says At least 200 people, including more than 100 children, were killed in an attack on a village in the Afar region of Ethiopia, regional officials and…
Tigray rebel forces pushed out of Adi Arkay Intense fighting has been reported along several fronts in and around the town of Lalibela on Friday, in a bid to recapture the tourist town, seized by the rebel forces from the…
Tommy Thompson, the U.N.’s World Food Programme (WFP) emergency coordinator, has left Ethiopia and “moved to another country” after being accused of having violated the UN’s humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality, it emerged. A spokesman for the WFP admitted…
Jawar Mohammed et al, who have been on hunger strike for almost six weeks, have agreed to end their hunger strike on Monday, March 8th, their lawyers said. Jawar Mohammed, Bekele Gerba, and Hamza Adane who have reportedly refused to…
The BBC reporter in Tigray has been released without charge. Girmay Gebru was taken from a café in the regional capital, Mekelle, on Monday, and detained by the military. A local journalist, Tamirat Yemane, and two translators – Alula Akalu…
Girmay Gebru, a BBC reporter in the Tigray region, has been detained by the military. Girmay Gebru, who works for the BBC Tigrigna, was arrested alongside four other people in a cafeteria in Mekele city on Monday by uniformed soldiers,…
(BBC)-Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray killed hundreds of people in Aksum mainly over two days in November, witnesses say. The mass killings on 28 and 29 November may amount to a crime against humanity, Amnesty International…