ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s military killed 42 armed men accused of attacking a village in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region, state-affiliated Fana TV reported on Thursday, as the government sent in more troops to contain ethnic tensions. Government forces seized bows and arrows and other weapons from the armed men, Fana said in its report...
November 14, 2026
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Provide unhindered access to whole of Tigray to protect civilians, Bachelet urges Ethiopia
Geneva, Seven weeks after the conflict began in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the continuing lack of overall humanitarian access, coupled with an ongoing communications blackout in many areas, raises increasing concerns about the situation of civilians, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned on Tuesday. “While we welcome the Ethiopian Government’s statement...
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‘Slaughtered like chickens’: Eritrea heavily involved in Tigray conflict, say eyewitnesses
Despite denials by Ethiopia, multiple reports confirm killings, looting and forcible return of refugees by Asmara’s forces In early December, Ethiopian state television broadcast something unexpected: a fiery exchange between civilians in Shire, in the northern Tigray region, and Ethiopian soldiers, who had recently arrived in the area. To the surprise of viewers used to wartime propaganda, the...
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Deaf Somali student excels in his IDP camp school
Hared Adan Isaq, 17, is a top performing student despite being deaf and having no access to special educational facilities at the school he attends in a displacement camp in southern Somalia’s Dollow district. Living in a two-room hut with his family of 12, Hared came second in assessments out of 500 students in his...
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Ethiopian journalist Dawit Kebede detained without charge since November 30
Nairobi, Ethiopian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Dawit Kebede and stop harassing members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On November 30, federal police arrested Dawit, managing editor of the online news outlet Awramba Times, while he was dining with friends at a restaurant in Addis Ababa, the capital, according...
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EU postpones $109 million aid to Ethiopia over Tigray access
OHANNESBURG (AP) -The European Union has postponed 90 million euros ($109 million) in budgetary support to Ethiopia over lack of access to the country’s Tigray region to deliver humanitarian aid amid the conflict. The delay in the funding, which was supposed to be paid at the end of the year, was confirmed to The Associated...
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Saudi Arabia: Migrants Held in Inhuman, Degrading Conditions
Beirut– A deportation center in Riyadh is holding hundreds of mostly Ethiopian migrant workers in conditions so degrading that they amount to ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. Detainees alleged to Human Rights Watch that they are held in extremely overcrowded rooms for extended periods, and that guards have tortured and beaten them with rubber-coated...
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Ethiopia’s war-scarred Tigray region regains some services
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia sent civil servants in Tigray back to work on Monday and ordered gun owners to disarm as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government sought to restore normality in the northern region after weeks of war. Some power and telephone links were also restored in regional capital Mekelle after a virtual communications...
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New exile for Eritrean refugees fleeing Ethiopia
Eritrean refugee Kheder Adam, fled Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict, saying soldiers attacked the camp in which he had been living with his wife and children Among the thousands of people fleeing the five-week-old conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are a few dozen men, women and children from Eritrea, one of the world’s most authoritarian states. They...
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In Kenya, COVID-19’s rural spread strains creaky healthcare
By Joseph Akwiri, Maggie Fick MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – The recent deaths from COVID-19 in Kenya of a refugee, a member of parliament and a retired civil servant all happened for the same reason: emergency help was hours away. Nearly three quarters of Kenya’s intensive care unit (ICU) beds are in the two largest cities, Nairobi and...