Month: February 2022
- Africa
News: UNISFA gets Nigerian interim Force Commander as Ethiopia departs
Major General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr . Picture: punchng.com Addis Abeba – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Major General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr of Nigeria as Force Commander for the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). Mag. Gen. Kefyalew Amde Tessema. Picture: UNISFA The UN said Major General Sawyerr “succeeds Major General Kefyalew Amde Tessema…
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News: “Reasonable ground to believe” Karrayyu Gadaa leaders’ killing constitutes “extrajudicial killing” by security forces: EHRC
Some of Karrayyu’s Gadda Michille leaders, Councilors and Qallu (Spiritual leaders) who were executed on December 1, 2021 Addis Abeba, February 2/ 2022- The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) today released a report on the killing of the Karrayu’s Gadaa Michilee leaders on December 1 last year. The commission said that there’s “reasonable ground to believe” that the killing of…
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#ASDailyScoop: Nine federal police officers killed, four seriously injured in car collision in Oromia
The federal police pickup involved in the accident. Picture: ENA Addis Abeba – Nine members of the federal police commission were killed yesterday in a car crash in Goba Woreda of Bale Zone, Oromia regional state, state media quoted Goba Woreda Police as saying. The accident took place in Goba Woreda, in a place known as Genda Rira, Assistant Inspector…
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