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Fasika Tadesse and Simon Marks Almost 7,000 civilians in Ethiopia’s Amhara region were killed between June and December last year by fighters from the northern Tigray region, according to a report commissioned by the regional government. The study, carried out by researchers from local universities and the regional statistics office and released on Saturday, found...

Addis Abeba – A report by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) concluded that an armed attack at a traditional ceremony ceremony crowning a clan chief for Akisho Clan in Somali state constituted “excessive use of lethal force” by regional security forces and armed men. EHRC said although the regional government has paid compensation to the families of...

Josef Federman And Fares Akram ERUSALEM (AP) — Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the satellite channel’s best-known reporters, was shot and killed on Wednesday while covering an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. The broadcaster and two reporters who were with her blamed Israeli forces. Israel’s defense minister, Benny...

The Russia-Ukraine crisis has captured the world’s attention, and understandably so, but at the risk of eclipsing the visibility of massive humanitarian crises elsewhere. In particular, it has muted attention to Ethiopia’s ongoing civil war, which started in November 2020 and has caused enormous human suffering. Millions have been left without access to adequate food, healthcare and...

By Lucy Kassa IREUTERS/ Many Tigrayans fled the region when the civil war broke out in November 2020 The remains of hundreds of people are being deliberately destroyed in an organised campaign to dispose of evidence of ethnic cleansing in the west of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to interviews with 15 eyewitnesses. The allegations follow...

Foreign nationals can be naturalized in Germany without producing official identity documents — but only in exceptional cases. This is according to a ruling at the Mainz administrative court. A Somali living in Germany for over a decade had his citizenship application rejected in 2019 on the grounds of not being able to sufficiently prove...

Until last year, Ethiopian forces accounted for the vast majority of the around 4,000-member UN peacekeeping mission in disputed Abyei Ethiopian peacekeepers from the war-torn Tigray region, who are refusing to return home, are victims of rebel “propaganda”, the defence ministry said, following the soldiers’ request for political asylum in Sudan. More than 500 UN...