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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…
Seven people have been killed after a bus was attacked in the Tigray region, BBC Amharic reported citing eyewitnesses and hospital sources. Several others were injured and are being treated at hospitals. The bus was traveling from Mekele to Addis…
Jawar Mohammed, Bekele Gerba, and two other prisoners have refused to end their hunger strike despite a plea from religious leaders and politicians. Jawar Mohammed and Bekele Gerba are among 22 individuals who were arrested in a relation to a…
After nearly two months of silence, the former president of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, Debretsion Gebremichael, spoke in a recorded broadcast on Saturday on a Facebook page of Dimitsi Weyane. In a recorded message on the Facebook page of…
The minors as young as 11 and 12 arrested on suspicion of being members of OLF Shane in the western Gambella region were released a week ago and returned home, Gambella region president Omod Ojulu Obub told DW Amharic. In…
Outgoing United States Ambassador to Ethiopia Michael Raynor called for humanitarian assistance programs to be accelerated in the country’s Tigray region. As he prepares to finish his term next week, the ambassador said that after almost three months of the…