Afar regional state
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News update on detention of journalists by security forces
Left: members of Tigray Tv crew who were detained and subsequently released by security forces in Afar regional state. Right:…
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News: Displaced for more than seven years, IDPs in Afar region seek meaningful support
From left, Fatuma Mohammed, Dana Kasin Mohammed and Saida Mohammed Addis Abeba, February 18/2020 – Some 400 people remain displaced…
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News: Desert Locusts spread to new areas in Ethiopia; new threat from cyclic multiplication in the Somali region
Addis Abeba, January 20/2020 – Despite control efforts, Desert Locusts are spreading to new areas of Ethiopia in vast numbers.…
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News: Sixteen people, including children, killed in Ethiopia’s Afar region after armed attacks, several wounded
The attacks occurred in Afambo wereda, Obno Kebele, near the border with Djibouti in the east and Somali regional state…
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News: Despite improvement, security in eastern Ethiopia neighboring states remain a challenge
Featured picture: partial view of participants of the eastern Ethiopia neighboring states security council meeting Addis Standard staffs Addis Abeba,…
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Updated News: Somali region unilaterally withdraws from 2014 agreement transfering three kebeles to Afar region, beefs up security
Photo: SRNews Hayalnesh Gezahegn Addis Abeba, May 04/2019 – In an extraordinary meeting it held on May 03 in Jigjiga…
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News: Eleven civilians killed in Siti zone of Somali region by what witnesses said were Afar regional state special forces
Addis Abeba, May 03/2019 – At least eleven civilians, many of whom pastoralists, were killed by members of the Afar…
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