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After over 45 days in prison, Oromia Media Network (OMN) journalist Guyo Wario was released on bail Tuesday, the Voice of America reported. “I am so happy for being with family now. [The] prison situation was very tough, but the court investigated my case and…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has approved a plan to halt U.S. foreign assistance to Ethiopia as the Trump administration attempts to mediate a dispute with Egypt and Sudan over Ethiopia’s construction of a massive dam on the Nile River,…
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) said around sixty-seven members of the church have been killed in a series of attacks in Addis Ababa and Oromia region following the assassination of Hachalu Hundessa, a popular Oromo singer and activist in late…
(Aljazeera)-At least nine people have died in clashes in the Oromia region between security forces and protesters demanding the release of an opposition politician and a media magnate, health officials said on Thursday. The protests started on Tuesday after a…
The founder and former president of the Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP), Lidetu Ayalew appeared in court on Monday for the second time since being detained on July 24 amid chaos which occurred following the death of Hacahalu Hundessa. Lidetu appeared…
Prosecutors in the Tigray region are seeking sedition charges for nine youths who were arrested in Mekele city six weeks ago while they “were preparing to hold an illegal demonstration.” Police have detained the youths as they made their…
The Oromia region wing of Prosperity Party (PP) has suspended Minister of Defense and former president of the Oromia Regional State, Lemma Megerssa, and two other officials from party membership, party spokesperson disclosed on Sunday. At the end of its…
(AP)-An official in Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar region says heavy flooding has displaced some 20,000 people from their homes. “The flooding has caused damages to properties and killed several dozens of animals,” Kulsuma Burhaba Ali, deputy head of the region’s disaster…
Police accused Workineh of selling cigarettes – a claim he denied. A 26-year-old Ethiopian national died in a hospital on Monday after allegedly being beaten by police while he was at his shop in Tembisa, a township northeast of Johannesburg,…
“They sicced a dog on him,” says Taher Omar Huru, a 47-year-old Ethiopian refugee and a local community leader in Cairo, pointing to different body parts. “The dog bit him here, and here and here … His only crime was being…