BY TESFANEWS* Youths enraged by the killing of a popular Oromo musician Haacaaluu Hundeessaa burned tyres in Ethiopia’s capital as unrest start to spread in other cities. In Adama, 90km south-east of Addis Ababa, five people died after being shot during demonstrations and 75 others were injured, hospital chief executive Dr. Mekonnin Feyisa told BBC […]
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BY ELIAS MESERET | AP Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed faced the most serious political challenge of his short rule Thursday as officials said dozens of people might be dead in two days of unrest caused by tensions between security forces and the country’s most prominent activist.
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BY ELIAS MESERET | ASSOCIATED PRESS Government officials and residents said overnight ethnic-based attacks in the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, have killed several people and caused hundreds to flee their homes.
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Accusations come as Ethiopia continues to be under a state of emergency since its former prime minister resigned BY AL JAZEERA Ethiopia has accused neighboring Eritrea of attempting to destabilize its security by supporting “destructive” groups while the country continues to be under a state of emergency. According to Ethiopian state television, the country’s emergency council managed to […]
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Command post secretariat calls the death due to “mistaken intelligence report” BY ENGIDU WOLDIE | ESAT NEWS Agazi soldiers of the TPLF regime in Ethiopia killed at least 13 people in Moyale town, in the restive Oromo region of Southern Ethiopia. At least 25 others were wounded, according to a report by the Oromia Media […]
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Security forces empowered to use ‘all necessary measures’ BY TESFANEWS The increasingly paranoid Ethiopian regime today ordered the country’s security forces to “take all the necessary measures” to deal with anti-government civilian protesters demanding political reforms in the restive Oromia region.
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By MOHAMMED ADEMO and HASSEN HUSSEIN | NEW YORK TIMES A day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia abruptly resigned, the country declared a state of emergency on Friday. The second such decree in less than two years, martial law was reimposed amid reports of a bitter succession struggle, a worrying development for a […]
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“Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside” – John F. Kennedy BY FINANCIAL TIMES When Hailemariam Desalegn resigned as Ethiopian prime minister on Thursday following almost three years of deadly anti-government protests, he said he did it to be “part of the solution” to meet the public’s demands for “development, […]
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