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WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 10: Members of the Washington DC Ethiopian community demonstrate outside of the U.S. State Department to protest attacks by the Ethiopian government on ethnic Amharas and the Amhara region in Ethiopia on August 10, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images)
CIVILIANS

Ethiopian forces killed ‘at least 45 civilians’

The killings followed months of clashes between Ethiopia’s military and a Amhara militia known as Fano

  • Agence France Presse
2 min read
Sinister: Security forces in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, recently conducted an operation to round up the poor of the city. Photo: Amanuel Sileshi/AFP
ABIY AHMED

Welcome to Addis Ababa – unless you’re homeless

Thousands of indigent and homeless people have been picked up by authorities on the streets of the country’s capital Addis Ababa and taken to a camp where they are kept in…

  • Samuel Getachew
4 min read
Recruits for reserves of Amhara regional forces march during their graduation ceremony, in the city of Dessie, Ethiopia, on August 24, 2021. – Long confined to Tigray, the conflict in Ethiopia has recently spread to two neighbouring regions, Afar and Amhara, with heavy weapons fire killing an untold number of civilians and displacing hundreds of thousands more. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images)
ABIY AHMED

UN rights chief decries ‘extreme brutality’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict

Michelle Bachelet insisted on the need to bring perpetrators of a vast array of rights abuses to justice

  • Nina Larson
4 min read