Category: Politics
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…
Seven people have been killed after a bus was attacked in the Tigray region, BBC Amharic reported citing eyewitnesses and hospital sources. Several others were injured and are being treated at hospitals. The bus was traveling from Mekele to Addis…
Jawar Mohammed, Bekele Gerba, and two other prisoners have refused to end their hunger strike despite a plea from religious leaders and politicians. Jawar Mohammed and Bekele Gerba are among 22 individuals who were arrested in a relation to a…
After nearly two months of silence, the former president of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, Debretsion Gebremichael, spoke in a recorded broadcast on Saturday on a Facebook page of Dimitsi Weyane. In a recorded message on the Facebook page of…
The minors as young as 11 and 12 arrested on suspicion of being members of OLF Shane in the western Gambella region were released a week ago and returned home, Gambella region president Omod Ojulu Obub told DW Amharic. In…
A Federal High Court has postponed hearings for Jawar Mohammed, Bekele Gerba, and co-defendants due to complaints related to supporters allegedly prohibited from attending court proceedings. The Federal High Court, Lideta Branch was scheduled this morning to hear the defendants’…