On Tuesday 9th August, Kenyan voters will be heading to the polls for the 2022 General Elections, where they will vote to elect a new President, as well as voting to elect members of the National Assembly, and members of…
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3 August 2022, Washington D.C. We, leaders of organizations listed below, express…
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#Ethiopia: Clarification on the incident in #Serdo, Afar region, involving our recent convoy to Tigray. pic.twitter.com/8rtzvHjc5S — ICRC Ethiopia (@ICRCEthiopia) July 30,…
Belayneh Abate The eyes and the bodies of the massacred Amaras in the recent genocide have not yet decomposed. The survivors…
Journalist Temesgen Dessalegn has been detained for the past two months just for expressing his opinion. The charges keep changing and there’s…
From left: Radhika Coomaraswamy, Kaari Betty Murungi (chair), and Steven Ratner. Pictures: Agencies/UN/Archive Addis Abeba – Members of the U.N. appointed International…
Under Strict Embargo Until Thursday, 21 July 2022 at 00:01 GMT The Ethiopian authorities must urgently launch an impartial investigation into the summary killing of over 400 Amhara residents of Tole Kebele in Oromia region on 18 June, Amnesty International said today. Hundreds of…
(by A. Alemayehu) The smell of genocide Here, there is no cobalt or tantalum No oil Just fertile soil And people that morning to dusk toil Or is there? We just don’t know Well, there must be some resource Some curse That someone…
Abdullahi Halakhe July 17, 2022 Please see below a statement from Refugees International’s Senior Advocate for East and Southern Africa, Abdullahi Halakhe: “Refugees International is deeply concerned about media reports that the Ethiopian government has rounded up more than 100 Eritrean refugees in and…
Tesfaye Z. Yigzaw I would like to express my deep condolences to the mothers, fathers, and elders savagely slaughtered by TPLF and OLF terrorists. Tigray People Liberation Front has been proposing separation to conceal its crimes. Is this a wish of the people of…
I have Buried 61 People Including 22 of My Own Children and Grandchildren – Personal Testimony of an Amhara Father Who Survived the Massacre at Gimbi (Western Ethiopia) on Saturday the 18th of June 2022 Translation by Assefa Negash, M. D. Amsterdam, the Netherlands –…
By Belayneh Abate It was perplexing to watch the Ethiopian elites seeing a glitter of hope in the current rulers of the Ethiopian People Democratic Front (EPRDF)-the self-acclaimed PP, who lied the noble lies to cheat the Ethiopian people in general…
Fri, July 8, 2022 at 8:17 AM·2 min read Ethiopians have been subjected to “extreme brutality and cruelty” by government forces and rebel groups active in violent conflicts across the…
Abebe Gellaw Victims of all sorts of injustices, violence, genocide, mass atrocities, and ethnically motivated killings deserve justice more than anything. Even if they…
OLA rebels of a ‘new massacre’ as survivor tells state media that as many as 300 bodies had been collected. The rebel group of…
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is alarmed by reports of the massacre of an as yet unconfirmed number of civilians in…
By Mahlet Fasil @MahletFasil Federal Prosecutors indicted journalist Temesgen Desalegn, owner and managing director of the Amharic weekly, “Fitih” magazine, this morning with…
June 30, 2022 Tesfaye Z. Yigzaw Mothers and children are unable to weep, with no chance to bury one another as all…
Ethiopian Dialogue Forum (EDF) From the Ethiopian Dialogue Forum Board (EDF) – June 25, 2022 The 1994 Rwandan Genocide that claimed the…
This report has been compiled and written by Mrs. Genet Asmamaw, a journalist. Translation of the compiled text from Amharic into English…
By Dawit W Giorgis (This article is available in Amharic, French and German) As I write this article AP on June 20…
Bruke Lemma, Ph.D. “Genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out…
The death toll from the Wollega massacre in western Ethiopia has surpassed 1500 with as many as 12…
Obang Metho As I mourn the recent death of more than 400 ethnic Amharas people in Tole Kebele,…
Witnesses in Ethiopia said on Sunday that more than 200 ethnic Amhara have been killed in an attack in the…
Addis Ababa, 17 June 2022 Microsoft has collaborated with the Ethiopian Ministry of Education to implement a Higher Educational…
June 8, 2022 / Israel Hayom Russia has invaded Ukraine and is committing war crimes there. China has…
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June 3, 2022 The Norwegian Nobel Committee Henrik Ibsens gate 51 0255 Oslo E-mail: [email protected] Dear Excellencies: Subject:…
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By Mahlet Fasil About a dozen journalists and media personalities were arrested in a span of three days, reports said. The arrests were made in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara…
The Terrorist TPLF forces executed and gang-raped over 7,000 innocent civilians in their short-lived occupation of the Amhara State, according to the research conducted by the state’s 10 universities together with the…
By Getahun Tsegaye @GetahunTsegay12 Addis Abeba – Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) told lawmakers to pay “special attention” to the increasing level of human rights abuses in Ethiopia including extrajudicial killings, excessive use of force, random…
This message is prepared in consultation with members of the Executive Committee of OTAGE as a follow up to an earlier letter (attached below) sent to the UN Secretary General and the…
by Kanika Batra Arora April 27, 2022 For a long time, Facebook has been responsible for propagating hate speech on its platform, especially in the least developing and vulnerable countries. Even while it…
We, the undersigned, strongly protest against the joint report of Amnesty International (“AI”) and Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) issued recently accusing the Federal Government of Ethiopia, the Amhara Regional Government and the…
26 APRIL 2022 BY THIJS BOUWKNEGT, FOR JUSTICEINFO.NET Last week, The Hague Appeals Court completed its long-awaited hearings on old war crimes in Ethiopia. With ongoing conflict in Tigray, the Derg’s “Red Terror” of…
Dear the people of Egypt: The historical linkage between Egypt and Ethiopia is documented unambiguously in historical archives. The Greek historian, known for his universal history Bibliotheca Historica emphasized that Ethiopia was the only origin of Egyptian…
By Bill Gates | April 22, 2022 Last week, I went to the TED conference in Vancouver. It was my first time back at TED since 2015, when I gave a speech about how…
April 14, 2022 The 11th Conference of the Forum for Ethiopian Scholars and Professionals (FESP) which was organized in partnership with the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) of the Addis Ababa University, was…
Welkait is a great site of mass graves where thousands of people were massacred and buried by TPLF’s tyrannical administration during the past four decades, according to a prominent American photojournalist who…
Around 400 million dollars’ worth of petroleum has been illegally smuggled from Ethiopia in 2020/21 according to reports. The contrasting prices with markets in neighboring countries have offered a lucrative prospect for…
Internally Displaced Person camp in Ethiopia (Photo: Jemal Countess) BAR Contributing Editor Ann Garrison reports from Ethiopia. I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US…
By Girma Berhanu* April 13, 2022 Point of Departure I am moved to write this article because of two horrifying stories of the week. The first one is the incident in Minjar, Amhara…