Daniel Bekele, chief of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, said on Friday that a string of highly unusual and little-discussed police raids this month took at least eight Ethiopian government officials into custody, implicity for human rights violations.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday demanding his administration issue an assessment of accusations of genocide against the government of Ethiopia and demanding Biden do more to address the brutal civil war in that country.
Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) recently dismissed 2,574 officials from leadership positions as part of a major political reshuffle amid Ethiopia’s ongoing civil war, the Addis Standard reported on Wednesday.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday her staff recorded 304 deaths caused by military airstrikes in northern Ethiopia since November 2021 “apparently carried out by the Ethiopian Air Force.”
Saudi Arabian security forces arrested 150 people for trying to illegally cross the border into the kingdom between February 24 and March 2, “of whom 46 percent were Yemeni nationals [and] 42 percent were Ethiopians,” the Saudi Gazette reported this weekend.
The NGO Refugees International predicted in a call for help this week that famine in the Tigray region of Ethiopia could “mirror” the Great Famine of the 1980s, as a result of the ongoing civil war in that country.
The Foreign Press Association, Africa – an organization for foreign reporters on the continent – issued an impassioned statement on Tuesday condemning global coverage of the Russian assault on Ukraine for being “racist” and showing a “lack of nuance and empathy” towards victims of war in Africa and other areas with majority non-white populations.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is set to be re-appointed Tuesday via a secret ballot – standing for the role unopposed.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee issued a rare statement on Thursday suggesting Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed — who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize in part for ending a war between Ethiopia and Eritrea — “has a special responsibility” to end an ongoing civil war within Ethiopia, the Nobel Peace Center reported on Friday.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accused the government of Ethiopia of blocking humanitarian aid into the country’s Tigray region, where an ethnic civil war is currently underway, reports highlighted on Wednesday.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will run for a second term at the helm of the organization in May 2022 unopposed, despite presiding over one of the most embarrassing episodes in the history of the agency: the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Members and associates of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a Marxist political party that ruled Ethiopia from 1991 to 2018, have engaged in human rights atrocities including gang rapes and mass killings of civilians in the ongoing Ethiopian Civil War, Reuters revealed on Tuesday.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed — who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for ending an Ethiopian war with Eritrea — is currently leading federal Ethiopian troops on the “frontline” of the country’s latest battle against separatist forces from northern
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, announced on Monday he will head for the front lines of battle and take direct command of his troops to fight the Tigrayan insurrection.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, vowed on Wednesday to “bury” his enemies from the rebellious Tigray province in “blood and bones.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a four-day tour of Africa this week, trashing the former colonial powers of Europe and presenting Turkey as a more loyal and understanding development partner for Africans.
Mekelle, capital city of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray province, was reportedly hit by airstrikes on Monday while ground forces from the central government moved against Tigrayan fighters in the neighboring province of Amhara.
The United Nations on Monday recalled two female staffers from Ethiopia after a recording of them accusing U.N. officials of bias toward the Tigrayan rebels was posted online. One of the names they dropped was Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and a Tigrayan himself.
Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry declared seven United Nations (U.N.) officials “persona non grata” on Thursday and gave them 72 hours to leave the country for allegedly “meddling” in the nation’s “internal affairs.”
Sudanese military officials said on Sunday that an attempt by Ethiopian forces to cross the border between the two countries was repelled. Ethiopia’s neighbors are worried about its civil war spreading instability across the region, and Sudan is particularly nervous after an attempted coup last week.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Thursday accusing Eritrean troops and Tigrayan militia of raping and killing Eritrean refugees living in northern Ethiopia.
Ethiopian government officials on Wednesday accused the rebellious Tigray minority of murdering 120 civilians at a village in the neighboring Amhara region, the first report of a large-scale atrocity since the Tigrayans invaded Amhara. Meanwhile, Sudan summoned its Ethiopian ambassador to complain about the large number of Tigrayan corpses floating across the border on the Setit River.
Amnesty International (AI) published a report on Tuesday that accused forces loyal to the government of Ethiopia – including troops from neighboring Eritrea and militia recruited from the Amhara tribe – of using systematic rape as a weapon against the insurgents of Tigray province.
Ethiopia’s government on Tuesday called on citizens of the East African country to join the Ethiopian federal defense forces in fighting Tigrayan separatists in northern Ethiopia despite Addis Ababa’s official announcement of a ceasefire in June, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
Addis Ababa police confirmed on Tuesday that a U.S. citizen working as an election observer in Ethiopia was found dead in the capital city on Tuesday, Kenya’s EastAfrican newspaper reported on Wednesday.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who hails from the troubled Tigray region of Ethiopia, on Monday denounced the situation in his home country as “very horrific” due to “rampant” starvation, violence, population displacement, and rape.
Ethiopian army soldiers and allied Eritrean troops allegedly “massacred” at least 78 priests of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
A report published Tuesday alleges that Ethiopian federal troops and allied Eritrean army soldiers have committed “starvation crimes” as a military tactic in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region over the past several months.
Armed members of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) killed at least 29 people after storming a church in East Welega, located in the Oromia region of central Ethiopia, last week, the Addis Standard reported on Tuesday. The attack took place
Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region “killed hundreds of unarmed civilians” in the city of Axum in late November 2020, according to a report Amnesty International released Friday.
Ethiopian state media Wednesday announced the arrest of 15 people in connection with a plot to attack the embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A similar attack was reportedly planned against the UAE embassy in Khartoum, Sudan.
An estimated 20,000 refugees are missing from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region after two displaced persons camps in the war-torn area were destroyed in recent fighting, the United Nations (U.N.) said this week.
Ethiopian government forces allegedly killed about 750 people in an attack on a Christian church in the city of Aksum, located in northern Ethiopia’s conflict-ridden Tigray region, Christian Today reported on Tuesday.
The New York Times (NYT) on Monday cited testimony from numerous international aid workers, diplomats, U.N. officials, and Ethiopian refugees who said soldiers from Eritrea are fighting alongside Ethiopian government troops to subdue insurgents in the restless Tigray region of Ethiopia.
Eyewitness reports suggest that artillery strikes have killed “hundreds of civilians” in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an ongoing military conflict there, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
The head of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus faces a call for prosecution over his alleged involvement in directing security forces in his Ethiopian homeland.
Ethiopian security forces shot at and detained U.N. staff members this week as they tried to access restricted zones in the northern Tigray region, a senior Ethiopian government official said on Tuesday.
At least 600 civilians were killed in northern Ethiopia on November 9 due to their ethnicity, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) alleged on Tuesday.
More than 600 Chinese citizens have been evacuated from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region over the past two weeks after a conflict between separatist militants and Ethiopian federal forces broke out on November 4, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Tuesday.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a statement on Thursday denying allegations from the government of Ethiopia that he is secretly backing the Tigray rebels in his home country’s steadily escalating civil war.
