Human Rights
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News: USAID partner staff member killed in Tigray; U.N. condemns killing of nine aid workers so far; both call for protection and investigation
Picture captured by Reuters journalists shows “Eritrean soldiers in Shire, and main road Between Mekelle & Shire.” Dawit Endeshaw Addis…
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News: Defendants on Jawar Mohammed’s file request Court to postpone hearing after election and up to two years
Left to right: Bekele Gerba, Jawar Mohammed and Hamza Borana By Mahlet Fasil @MahletFasil Addis Abeba, May 20, 2021– Defendants…
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News: Police transfers Mohammed Deksiso to undisclosed location
Mohammed Deksiso, Picture: Social Media By Siyanne Mekonnen @Siyaanne Addis Abeba, May 20, 2021- The brother of Jimma University graduate…
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News: OLF’s Colonel Gemechu Ayana taken away by security forces; PR says whereabouts of detained members unknown; chairman remains incommunicado
Colonel Gemechu Ayana, Senior OLF Official. Picture: Mo’AA TV By Siyanne Mekonnen @Siyaanne Addis Abeba, May 19, 2021 – Thirteen…
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News: Supreme Court closes file on the prosecutor’s appeal for closed door, behind curtain hearing against Jawar et. al; refers file to high court
Defendants from left: Bekele Gerba, Jawar Mohammed, Dejene Tafa and Hamza Borana of the opposition party Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC)…
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News: Lawyers, prosecutors in Abreha Tekeste’s file argue in front of Fed. Court over witness hearing proceedings, ruling postponed to a further date
Among the top former senior TPLF officials currently on trial are Sebehat Nega, Kidusan Nega and Abay Woldu By Mahlet…
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News: At least 358,000 IDPs in North Shewa & Oromo Special Zones need urgent assistance: UN
Scenes of destruction from Ataye. Picture: Enyew Bihonegn Addis Abeba, May 18/2021 – An inter -agency mission conducted on 3-6…
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Just in: US says food aid blockage in Tigray “reprehensible”, calls on Eritrea, Ethiopia to “cease & desist this conduct”
Internally dispalced Tigrayans sheltered in a school in Mekelle. Picture: EU Read Out The United States is gravely concerned by…
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News: Increasing political, ethnic polarization in Ethiopia deeply concerning; US will work with allies to secure ceasefire in Tigray: Feltman
Demeke Mekonnen, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Ethiopia and U.S. special envoy to the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey…
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News Alert: EU says humanitarian aid in Tigray used “as a weapon of war”; warns those responsible “will be held to account”
Hundreds of people in Shire’s University IDP site live in an unfinished building, where they sleep, cook and eat. Many…
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