A leader’s admission of atrocities in Tigray fulfills a principle of accountability. By the Monitor’s Editorial Board Over the past quarter century, Africa’s…
Ethnic Conflict
Ethiopia: war in Tigray threatens to end Abiy’s dream of unity
At a makeshift shelter in a school in Mekelle, capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Gezae Wolderaphael, an aquiline-featured young sesame farmer, shows what he…
Attackers kill at least 20 in attack in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region, says official
Reuters – Gunmen killed at least 20 people last week in western Ethiopia, a regional government official said on Thursday, in what…
Comment on Attackers kill at least 20 in attack in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region, says official by Agazian
Imperial, We are not one, we are different and our strength emanates from our differences. But I think it is time for…
Report: Hospitals in Ethiopia’s Tigray struck by artillery
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Many of the hospitals in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region, outside its capital, have been struck by artillery during…
Death toll from attack in western Ethiopia reaches 222, Red Cross says
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -The death toll from a Wednesday attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has risen to 222 people,…
More than 9,000 arrests in Ethiopia since June killing of singer
Al-Jazeera Ethiopia has arrested more than 9,000 people after deadly clashes last month, the state-run human rights commission has told the Reuters…
Ethiopia is treading a political tightrope as its unresolved ethnic tensions erupt in violence again
By Yohannes Gedamu Oromia, one of the regions in Ethiopia’s ethnically constituted federation and the country’s most populated one, also happens to be…
Ethiopian PM says singer’s death part of plot to sow unrest
Addis Ababa (AFP) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Friday that the killing of a popular singer, and subsequent violence that…
How Hachalu Hundessa’s murder reveals Ethiopia’s political divide
Al- Jazeera Firaol Ajema and his friends, dressed in black T-shirts, have been meeting each afternoon in recent days to listen to…