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The Amhara region says 5 civilians have been shot dead by armed men in Benshangul-Gumuz region Armed ethnic Gumuz has killed five ethnic Amhara and injured four others in Benshangul-Gumuz, where ethnic violence cost hundreds of lives this year, a…
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stirred up hornet’s nest when he challenged agricultural professionals’ patriotism who asked for pay raise. The Prime Minister, speaking in front of the 1,500 agriculture transformation leaders at a forum in Adama town of Oromia region…
SENKELE— In the tall-grass woodland of the Great Rift Valley in southern Ethiopia lies the Senkele Swayne’s Hartebeest Sanctuary. The area has long been home to the Swayne’s Hartebeest, an endemic subspecies of antelope known locally as Qorkey. Named after…
Can the new Mejlis tackle the sectarian division? It was hailed as a watershed moment for Ethiopia’s large Muslim community that has been mired by strife, deep divisions and co-opting attempt from the regime. A call for the establishment of…
Officials are expediting return of the displaced to their villages of origin Jemila Seid, 46, arrived in the eastern city of Dire Dawa along with many others here on September 2017, after conflict broke out along the border between Oromia…
Interns complain of poor pay, heavy workloads and repeated over-time, inadequate facilities. The protests that started recently by final-year medical students and interns working in government hospitals in Jimma town and later in Assela which was met by a crackdown…
“A regime that has been thriving on dictatorship for twenty years is not expected to reform itself in twenty months. What we are witnessing today is a reflection of this,” said Ustaz Ahmed Mustufa, member of the Ethiopian Muslim Arbitration…
Tigray security forces have detained a dozen of opposition members on Sunday in Quiha sub-city of Mekele town who were taking part in a national clean-up campaign launched by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Abraha Desta of Arena Tigray said. This…
At a recent public meeting organised by the newly nominated city mayor, a young woman who lives in Mermasa area of Dire Dawa depicts a city that is going through a period of polarizing tension and widespread anxiety. Her message,…
The Gedeo displacement crisis in Guji zones in the south of Ethiopia has been largely overlooked and neglected, even though it has been going on for a year. At the peak of the crisis last July over 900,000 ethnic Gedeos…