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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Qeerroo – young Oromo activists and vanguards of the Oromo revolution – drove the mass strike that helped topple the prime minister of one of Africa’s most autocratic governments BY TOM GARDNER | THE GUARDIAN Today, Desalegn is a banker. But once he was a Qeerroo: a young, energetic and unmarried man from Ethiopia’s largest ethnic […]
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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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BY AWOL K ALLO | CNN Ethiopia is facing an upheaval of unprecedented magnitude. On February 15, the country’s Prime Minister Hailemariam stepped down in a surprise move that plunged the country into uncertainty. A day later, his government declared a nationwide state of emergency, the second such decree in less than two years.
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Oromia defy the state of emergency, killings continue BY TESFANEWS * Across Ethiopia’s Oromia region, shops and markets are closed and transport paralysed as protesters begin the first of three days of a boycott called by activists. In some places, public buses and minivans withdrew their services leaving many people stranded. Schools have also been […]
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A dispute over Ethiopia emergency rule vote ensued after footage posted online BY AARON MAASHO | REUTERS * Footage of an Ethiopian parliamentary session posted online on Saturday appeared to contradict official reports of the number of votes cast to validate the state of emergency, though government officials dismissed the discrepancy as a mistake.
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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 ENGIDU WOLDIE | ESAT NEWS Countries across the globe continue to denounce the martial law declared in Ethiopia saying it curtails basic human rights and worsens the crisis in the country. Swedish Foreign Minister, Margot Wallstrom, said today that her country, which is a long-time partner of Ethiopia, is concerned about the re-imposition of […]
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