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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…
The road linking Addis Ababa to the seaport of Djibouti, which was closed by Somali youths angered by a deadly militia attack on their region a few days ago has reopened. The railway line connecting Djibouti to Addis Ababa is…
Ellene Mocria, one of the first Ethiopian female radio and TV journalists, died of cancer Wednesday at age 79. She passed away this afternoon in Addis Ababa from complications related to cancer, her family said. Ellene was the first female…
The BBC reporter in Tigray has been released without charge. Girmay Gebru was taken from a café in the regional capital, Mekelle, on Monday, and detained by the military. A local journalist, Tamirat Yemane, and two translators – Alula Akalu…
Girmay Gebru, a BBC reporter in the Tigray region, has been detained by the military. Girmay Gebru, who works for the BBC Tigrigna, was arrested alongside four other people in a cafeteria in Mekele city on Monday by uniformed soldiers,…
(BBC)-Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray killed hundreds of people in Aksum mainly over two days in November, witnesses say. The mass killings on 28 and 29 November may amount to a crime against humanity, Amnesty International…