Murle gunmen allegedly crossed into Ethiopia’s Gambella region and killed 28 people before fleeing with 43 children. BY AGENCIES More than 1,000 gunmen from South Sudanese killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 children in Ethiopia’s Gambella province, an Ethiopian official says. Men from the Murle community, who crossed into Ethiopia, are being blamed. “Murle bandits carried […]
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By Mark Townsend, THE UN has demanded the immediate release of a Briton held on death row in Ethiopia for more than a year, an intervention that campaigners say exposes Britain’s poor diplomacy towards the case. Experts from the UN Human Rights Council have advised Ethiopia to pay Andargachew Tsige “adequate compensation” before sending him […]
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By Reuters and The Guardian, THE British government told Ethiopia on Thursday its treatment of an imprisoned opposition figure, who is also a British national, was unacceptable and that the case risked hurting ties between the two countries. Andargachew Tsige was sentenced to death in 2009 in absentia over his involvement with an opposition political […]
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By Press TV, THE United Nations says unidentified gunmen have attacked a group of Eritrean asylum seekers in the eastern part of Sudan, kidnapping 14 of them. On Thursday, the spokesman for UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Nicolas Brass, said based on the information provided by Sudanese authorities, a lorry of the Sudanese Commission of […]
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ብ SBS ትግርኛ፡ ክብሮም ብዛዕባ ጥፍኣት ክልተ ደቁን ሓንቲ ሓብቱን ሬሳኦም ንምርካብ ካብ ኣመሪካ ናብ ኢትዮጵያ ክሳብ ዶብ ኤርትራ ዝገበሮ ላዕሊ ታሕቲ ኣመልኪቱ ዘዘንተዎ ዘሕዝን ፍጻመ ተዘርጊሑ። ዘይከም ትጽቢት ክብሮም ግን ነቲ ቃለ መሕትት፡ መርበባት ሓበሬታ ዘይማእዝኑ ስለዘትሓዘኦ፡ ብዛዕባኤን በዓል ታሪኽ ክብሮም ፍረዝጊ ን፡ ነቲ ቃለ መሕትት ዝገበረሉ መም/መኮነንን ተስፋይ ዝብልዎ ኣለዎም ሞ ፡ ምሉእ ትሕዝቶኡ […]
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By Ahmed Abdi, THE Kenya-Ogaden Community is taking all possible precautions as Ethiopia prepares for the May 15 national election. Head of the Ogaden Refugee Council, Eng. Ahmed Sadik, has urged Kenyan authorities to exercise extreme vigilance during upcoming Ethiopian elections as there are fears that cross-border persecutions of Ogaden refugees will increase as was […]
Continue ReadingThe British government has finally acted over the illegal arrest and deportation of Andargachew Tsige, a British citizen, to Ethiopia by Yemen By Foreign & Commonwealth Office, THE Chargé d’Affaires at the Ethiopian Embassy in the UK, Mr Demeke Atnafu, was summoned to the Foreign Office this afternoon to meet the UK’s Minister for Africa, Mark […]
Continue ReadingBy Hindessa Abdul, SECRETARY general of the outlawed Ethiopian opposition group Ginbot 7, Andargachew Tsige, was detained in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on June 24; and if we have to believe the official version, he was extradited to the security officials in Addis the same day. Yemen, which never misses the top ten spot on […]
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