A group of United Nations human rights experts called Monday for Ethiopia to allow an international inquiry into the country’s detentions and violence against peaceful demonstrators. The U.N. appeal – for the second time this year – urged Ethiopian authorities, who placed the nation under a state of emergency over…
The U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia said Wednesday that an American agricultural expert has died after a roadside attack on the outskirts of Addis Ababa. The AP reports the woman is the first foreign citizen to die in Ethiopia’s anti-government protests since they erupted in November 2015. The woman, whose name has not…
Ethiopian officials have called for a three-day national mourning period, as the death toll – and the tension – continues to rise following weekend violence at an annual Irreecha festival in Bishoftu. The Oromo thanksgiving festival, attended by up to 2 million people in the town near Addis Ababa, became…
Oromo rights activists said Friday that Bontu Bekele Gerba, daughter of the imprisoned Oromo political opposition leader in Ethiopia, had been released after security forces detained her in the town of Mojo. Independent Oromo journalist Mohammed Ademo, a former al Jazeera America columnist based in the United States, said the family’s lawyer…
U.S. President Barack Obama hosted his Leaders’ Summit on Refugees Tuesday, following a U.N. General Assembly on Monday that resulted in adoption of the New York Declaration on refugees and migrants. Obama’s proposal to increase to 110,000 the number of refugees welcomed to the U.S. next year, from countries across…
Protests continue in the Oromo region of Ethiopia as accusations of systematic discrimination are thrown at the government. The protests that began in November last year started when students resisted the government’s proposed plan to expand the capital’s administrative control into the Oromia region. The region spans across the country…
The crisis in Ethiopia is continuing to escalate after two months of protests which have lead to deaths and accusations of torture committed by the government. “Security forces have killed at least 140 protesters and injured many more, according to activists, in what may be the biggest crisis to hit…