December 2020

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan said on Thursday its forces had taken control of all of Sudanese territory in a border area settled by Ethiopian farmers, after weeks of clashes. Ethiopia, for its part, accused its neighbour of sending forces into its territory for attacks. Border tensions have reignited since the outbreak of a conflict in …

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Reuters December 31, 2020 NAIROBI – Ethiopia’s state-appointed human rights commission said Friday that security forces killed at least 76 people and wounded nearly 200 during violent unrest in June and July that followed the killing of a popular singer. The commission also detailed brutality by civilians involved in the clashes, saying some attackers decapitated …

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THOMAS MOUNTAIN DECEMBER 31, 2020 With their army destroyed and their last, best troops wiped out in one morning on the outskirts of their capital Mekele the last remnants of the leadership of Ethiopia’s TPLF regime were forced to retreat to the secret Hagarasalam underground bunkers near the capital. Built by the notoriously paranoid and …

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By Eoin McSweeney, CNN December 30, 2020 (CNN)Two convicted Ethiopian war criminals are likely to finally leave the Italian embassy in the capital, Addis Ababa, after taking refuge there for almost 30 years. Berhanu Bayeh and Addis Tedla, two senior officials of Ethiopia’s former Mengistu military regime, who had been sentenced to death for war crimes, were …

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EDTF December 29, 2020 Dear Members of the Media, We trust this email finds you well and you are ready to celebrate the coming holidays and receive the New Year with a lot of hope and optimism. The current year has certainly been challenging, but it has also been rewarding in terms of our ability …

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ROME (Reuters) – An Ethiopian migrant who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted home, has been killed on her farm where she raised goats for her cheese business, police said on Wednesday. A Ghanaian employee on her farm in the northern Italian region of Trentino has admitted to killing Agitu Ideo Gudeta, …

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The Ethiopian Borders Affairs Committee December 28, 2020 The Ethiopian Border Affairs Committee (EBAC), a non-governmental civic organization that has been closely monitoring the Ethio-Sudan borders for the last 15 years, issued the following statement on 27 December 2020. EBAC condemns with the strongest possible terms the horrendous crimes of rampant killings, burnings and massive …

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(by A. Alemayehu) Abiy Ahmed’s visit to Metekel As millions around the world gazed into the night sky to spot the rare conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, Ethiopians in Metekel were looking up to the sky to plead their God for deliverance from genocidal attacks. For them, the night was a conjunction of all the …

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