Ethiopia declares six-month state of emergency in Amhara after clashes
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters Ethiopia’s government declared a six-month state of emergency on Friday in the country’s second-largest region, Amhara, following days of clashes between the military and local Fano militiamen, giving it powers to impose curfews, restrict movement and ban gatherings. The fighting that broke out earlier this week has quickly become Ethiopia’s most serious […]
Ethiopia and Eritrea deny US accusations of war crimes
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Ethiopia and Eritrea on Tuesday rejected a determination by the US State Department that their armies, along with all sides in the recently concluded conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, had committed war crimes. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that members of the Ethiopian National Defense Force, its allies […]
US determines all sides committed war crimes in Ethiopia conflict
Washington DC, USReuters The United States has determined that all sides committed war crimes during the conflict in northern Ethiopia that killed tens of thousands of people, left hundreds of thousands facing hunger and displaced millions, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. Blinken said that after a careful review of the law […]
Looting, forced removals plague Ethiopia’s Tigray despite truce – witnesses
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Ethiopia’s allies are looting towns, arresting and killing civilians and relocating thousands of people from a disputed part of Tigray despite a truce between the government and local forces, witnesses and aid workers in the northern region say. The violence raises fresh concerns about whether the ceasefire signed on 2nd November by Ethiopia’s […]
Terrible toll: Children are being killed and maimed by discarded explosives in Ethiopia
GIULIA PARAVICINI, of Reuters, reports on the damage discarded explosives are causing among children during the country’s civil war…