Attempted land grab by Ethiopian government has led to violence against ethnic group By Michael Day Independent People from the Oromia region, close to Addis Ababa, have been discriminated against by Ethiopia’s ruling ethnic groups Reuters The violence-torn Horn of Africa is seeing a fresh wave of repression as Ethiopian authorities crack down on protests
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Attempted land grab by Ethiopian government has led to violence against ethnic group By Michael Day Independent People from the Oromia region, close to Addis Ababa, have been discriminated against by Ethiopia’s ruling ethnic groups Reuters The violence-torn Horn of Africa is seeing a fresh wave of repression as Ethiopian authorities crack down on protests
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By Messay Kebede Regarding the present situation of unrest in Oromo towns and villages, many activists and observers repeatedly ask the question of knowing why other regions of Ethiopia where the discontent is no less general, especially the Amhara region, are not joining the ongoing protest. The consensus is that, unless the uprising extends to
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By Desta Andargie (PhD) Oromo university students are once again protesting against the expansion of the city of Addis Ababa, claiming that it would result in displacing Oromo farmers living around the capital. Whether the students are opposing the Integrated Regional Development Master Plan (Master Plan) per se or merely seizing the opportunity to vent
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Islington Tribune Yemi Hailemariam, who lives in Clerkenwell with her children, is campaigning for the release of her British national husband Andargachew Tsege By KOOS COUVÉE THE wife of a Holloway man held on death row in Ethiopia met with Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond for the first time this week – 18 months after he
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By William Davison, Bloomberg Protests by Ethiopia’s largest community against a plan to integrate the capital, Addis Ababa, with surrounding towns have spiraled into fatal clashes between ethnic groups over land in one district, the Ethiopian Human Rights Council said. Conflict between Oromo and Amhara people in Ameya Woreda of Oromia state flared on Dec.
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By Elias Meseret, Associated Press A grenade attack Friday during evening prayers wounded 24 people at the biggest mosque in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, five of them seriously, the government said. Authorities are not sure who is responsible for the attack at the Grand Anwar Mosque but investigations are underway, said Information Minister
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By Elias Meseret, Associated Press A grenade attack Friday during evening prayers wounded 24 people at the biggest mosque in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, five of them seriously, the government said. Authorities are not sure who is responsible for the attack at the Grand Anwar Mosque but investigations are underway, said Information Minister
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By William Davison Ethiopian police killed 10 Oromo students who were demonstrating peacefully over plans to integrate the capital, Addis Ababa, with surrounding towns in Oromia region in the past three weeks, an opposition leader said. High-school and university students from across Ethiopia’s most-populous region are protesting to demand the government shelve a master plan
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By Michelle Kagari and Nani Jansen Today, on International Human Rights Day, the Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega, who was convicted on trumped up terrorism charges, will have spent more than four years in jail. Eskinder is just one of many Ethiopian journalists currently languishing behind bars, merely for doing their job. But unlike other journalists
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