The Aba Gada leaders of the Guji-Oromo people, an ethnic Oromo subgroup who inhabit southern Ethiopia, have declared the Shene-Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) – a group that operates in the bushes of Southwestern Ethiopia as an “enemy of the Oromo…
After rebel forces from the Tigray region mounted attacks in neighbouring Amhara region, hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes in the North Wollo zone and flee south in search of a safer environment. Most…
Tigray rebel forces killed more than 200 civilians in a village in Amhara region, residents and local officials said. The killings in a village called Chenna Teklehaymanot of Dabat woreda took place during the rebel forces’ five days presence in…
Ethiopian troops and Tigray rebels have been engaged in heavy fighting near the symbolic town of Lalibela, eyewitnesses have told Ethiopia Observer. According to three eyewitnesses, the federal army had launched a ground offensive over the weeknd to gain control…
The Ethiopian government said Monday it had driven the Tigray rebels out of the garrison of Debre Zebit, a hilltop town located along “the China road”, that links the 300km east-west road from Woreta to Woldiya. The state media said…
At least thirty civilians, including one pregnant woman, were killed when the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) took control of four villages located in Farta woreda of South Gondar Zone of Amhara region, according to the Woreda Administrator. Wuletaw…
Recent attacks by Tigray rebel groups in the Amhara region have prompted thousands of people to seek refuge in Dessie town, 400 km north of Addis Ababa, over the past 4 days, with some sleeping in schools and churches, the…
Tigray rebel forces were responsible for the attack, a spokesman for Afar region says At least 200 people, including more than 100 children, were killed in an attack on a village in the Afar region of Ethiopia, regional officials and…
Tigray rebel forces pushed out of Adi Arkay Intense fighting has been reported along several fronts in and around the town of Lalibela on Friday, in a bid to recapture the tourist town, seized by the rebel forces from the…
Tommy Thompson, the U.N.’s World Food Programme (WFP) emergency coordinator, has left Ethiopia and “moved to another country” after being accused of having violated the UN’s humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality, it emerged. A spokesman for the WFP admitted…