An investigation published by Reuters on Friday revealed that a secretive committee of high-ranking officials in Ethiopia has been committing human rights violations in order to eliminate the Oromo Liberation Army- Oromo Liberation Front (OLF-OLA) insurgency group.
Ethiopian authorities have used the state of emergency to silence peaceful dissent by arbitrarily detaining prominent politicians critical of the government and journalists, Amnesty International said today.
The U.S. is calling for an investigation into an alleged massacre of civilians in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, where a local rights group says more than 80 people were killed last week following clashes between soldiers and armed groups.
His Eminence Abune Peteros, General Secretary of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Archbishop of the Diocese of New York, was unexpectedly denied entry by a security official from the Ethiopian government at Bole International Airport.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi expressed solidarity with Somalia in its ongoing dispute with Ethiopia, which recently entered into an agreement with the breakaway region of Somaliland.
Weeks after a deadly drone attack on November 30 killed five civilians in the town of Wegel Tena in Ethiopia’s Amhara region about 570km (350 miles) north of the capital, Addis Ababa, a witness is still reeling from the trauma.
Ethiopia became Africa’s latest defaulter after it failed to make an interest payment following the end of a grace period on Monday.
Alarmed by the increasingly deteriorating human rights situation in Ethiopia, the USA based NGO, Genocide Prevention in Ethiopia, has been sounding early warnings, red alerts, and atrocity reports regarding the ongoing war on ethnic Amharas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia as well as the ongoing ethnic based targeting against them else where in the country.
Fitch Ratings has downgraded Ethiopia's Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) as well as the issue rating on Ethiopia's single outstanding Eurobond to 'C' from 'CC'. Fitch typically does not assign Outlooks to sovereigns with a rating of 'CCC+' or below.
