Year: 2022
- Addis Abeba
#ASDailyScoop: City police says seven people injured in bomb explosion in Lemi Kura district of Addis Abeba
Scene showing shattered glasses inside “We Care” Grocery where a bomb blast injured seven people. Photo: Addis Abeba Police Addis Abeba – Addis Abeba Police announced that seven people were injured when a bomb exploded on the balcony of a grocery store in Lemi Kura sub-city, district (Woreda) 9 of the capital Addis Abeba on Thursday 07 December. The explosion…
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Op-ed: Tigray Interim Regional Administration: A case for government of national unity
Debretsion Gebremichael (PhD). Photo: Screenshot/AddisStandard Mehari Taddele Maru @DrMehari Addis Abeba – On November 2, 2022, in Pretoria, South Africa, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (GoE) government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (the Pretoria deal). Ten days later came the Declaration of the Senior Commanders on the Modalities for the…
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News: Opposition OFC calls for comprehensive peace solution to Oromia war to avert looming national crisis
The top leadership of the OFC, led by its Chairman Prof. Merera Gudina, left, met the local press yesterday and issued a statement on the current political crisis in Ethiopia, with particular attention to Oromia region. Photo: Screenshot/AddisStandard Addis Abeba – The opposition party, Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), said Oromia “has entered into a stage of such a devastating war…
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News: UK pledges full support to Ethiopia’s “path to recovery”, urge international community to rally behind
James Cleverly, UK’s Foreign Secretary met Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Photo: James Cleverly/Twitter Addis Abeba – UK’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly who is paying a working visit to Ethiopia to observe the improvements of humanitarian aid in the war-stricken northern part of the country said, “Ethiopia can rely on UK’s full support in its path to recovery and the…
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News: Orthodox Church denounces killings of Tigrayan prisoners near Arba Minch, civilians in East Wollega
His Holiness Abune Matias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. Picture: EOTC Addis Abeba – His Holiness Abune Mathias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, has denounced recent killings carried out in different parts of the country by armed groups and government security forces, saying that it “disturbs the peace atmosphere and saddens the church.” The Patriarch said…
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News Analysis: Civilians subjected to “grave violation of human rights” in clashes, attacks by armed groups, gov’t security forces operating in Oromia – EHRC
Civilians displaced from Gida Ayana district in last week’s attacks sheltered in school compound. Photo: Gida Ayana communication bureau Addis Abeba – Civilians are caught in crossfire and subjected to alarming crimes amounting to “grave violation of human rights” in the escalating attacks and militarized clashes in different parts of Oromia region in a span of five months, a new…
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News: More than 30,000 civilians displaced from violence hit East Wollega districts endure dire humanitarian crisis
By Getahun Legesse @Birmaduu2 Addis Abeba – Civilians from the towns and villages of Gida Ayana and Kiramu districts of East Wollega Zone, in western Oromia who fled their homes due to the recent violence are going through dire humanitarian crisis, a local official and a resident told Addis Standard. More than 30, 000 internally displaced civilians are stranded in…
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News: Conflict, drought in Ethiopia forces 3.6 million children out of school, half a million in last six months alone: new report
out-of-school children in Ethiopia “spiked from 3.1 million to 3.6 million in just the last six months”: ECW. Addis Abeba – A new report by the UN’s global fund for education in emergencies, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), revealed that conflict, climate change, malnutrition and displacement forced 3.6 million children out of school in Ethiopia in what it says is the…
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Analysis:A year after their Gada leaders’ brutal execution Karrayyu community get “neither justice nor peace”
By Alemitu Homa @alemituhoma Addis Abeba – On 31 November around 41 members of Gada leaders of the pastoralist Karrayyu community were rounded up by government security forces at a place called Motoma, in Fentalle District of East Shoa Zone, Oromia region, while they were on a prayer ritual. 14 out of those arrested including the leader, Abba Gadaa Kadir…
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News: EZema recommends arming civilians at risk, group of opposition parties ask military command post in east Wollega
Professor Berhanu Nega, Leader of Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (Ezema). Photo: Screenshot Addis Ababa – Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (Ezema), called on the federal government to “arm communities” living in “areas where government security forces cannot easily reach and are difficult to maintain peace using regular security forces.” The party said this in a statement it issued in…
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