Ethiopia rights body says all involved in fighting in north executed civilians
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters At least 749 civilians died in fighting in regions in northern Ethiopia since July last year, including extrajudicial killings by all sides involved in the conflict, a government-appointed rights group said on Friday. The commission said the human rights violations it documented “may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity” and called […]
Fighting in Ethiopia’s Afar region displaces 300,000, aid blocked to Tigray
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters The government of Ethiopia’s Afar region says more than 300,000 people have been displaced by warfare there since December and it accused Tigrayan forces of killing civilians and looting. The United Nations has said that the fighting in Afar was blocking the delivery of food to neighbouring Tigray region, where several hundred […]
UN chief says social fabric of Ethiopia being torn apart
United NationsReuters UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned the Security Council on Thursday that a conflict in Ethiopia has spread beyond the northern Tigray region and “a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes”. Ethiopia has been embroiled in a conflict that flared nine months ago in Tigray and which has spread to other areas. The […]
Ethiopian parents appeal for help to evacuate students stranded by Tigray war
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters The parents of thousands of Ethiopian students stranded in the war-ravaged northern region of Tigray on Friday appealed for help to evacuate them after the main university warned it could not feed them for much longer amid food and cash shortages. Mekelle University, which gets its budget from the Federal Government, posted […]
Fighting in Ethiopia’s Afar forces 54,000 people to flee, official says
Addis AbabaReuters Attacks by Tigrayan fighters in Ethiopia’s Afar region have forced over 54,000 people from their homes, an official said on Thursday, and refugees in a camp in southern Tigray described heavy clashes nearby. Tens of thousands of people, meanwhile, rallied in the capital to support Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who has faced criticism […]
DEVELOPMENT: VALERIE BROWNING’S EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AMONG THE AFAR PEOPLE OF NORTHERN ETHIOPIA
DAVID ADAMS talks to Australian nurse Valerie Browning, in Australia to touch base with supporters like Anglican Overseas Aid, about her remarkable life among the Afar people of northern Ethiopia and the difference the organisation she helped found – the Afar Pastoralist Development Association – is making to their lives…