Category: Politics

Women raped by combatants of the TPLF recount ordeal

(Following is a translation of an article by Rosa Moussaoui, entitled “Nos corps sont blessés, nos consciences sont touchées” published in the French-language daily, L’humanité. (Humanity), Paris, Saturday Dec 25th, 2021.) She was seated on a swing wooden bench set…
Ethiopian government forces retake Woldia

Ethiopia’s government forces are in control of the historic town of Lalibela Ethiopian government forces have captured several towns from Tigray rebel forces, including Woldia and Kobo, head of the Government Communication Service said. According to Legesse Tulu, head of…
Rights Groups: Amhara forces committed atrocities in Tigray

(VOA)-Rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region have committed a series of atrocities in the neighboring Tigray region. According to the two group’s reports, released Thursday, Amhara region militia forces are carrying out…
Lalibela recaptured by Tigrayan forces

The historic town of Lalibela had been recaptured by rebellious Tigrayan forces, Reuters agency reported on Sunday, citing witnesses, less than two weeks after government forces and their allies took control on December 1. The Tigray forces took control of…
Villagers describe ‘massacre’ in Amhara region

The villagers in Antsokiya-Gemeza woreda of North Shoa Zone lowered 51 bodies into a mass grave on Saturday. Fifteen of the dead were young girls and boys and ten of them elderly women. The rest were men. All had been…
Lalibela’s airport badly damaged by “rebel forces”

The Lalibela Airport, which was under the control of Tigrayan rebel forces for about four months, has sustained heavy damage,  the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) reported. Images shown on the national broadcaster revealed the extent of the damage to…