UN investigators probing alleged rights violations by Ethiopia call for wider access. Fighting erupted in the Tigray region when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent in troops. Untold numbers have since been killed in the region. United Nations investigators probing alleged human rights violations by Ethiopia in its northern conflict said Thursday they had been given … Read more
Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) already rejects talks led by AU. Conflict erupted in Tigray when Prime Minister Abiy sent troops. Abiy for the first time raised the possibility of negotiations with the TPLF. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s ruling party said Monday that only the African Union could broker potential peace talks with the … Read more
ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations said Wednesday that Ethiopia had detained 72 drivers working for the World Food Programme (WFP) in a northern city along the only functional road leading into the famine-threatened Tigray region. “We confirm that 72 outsourced drivers contracted by WFP have been detained in Semera. We are liaising with the Government … Read more
GENEVA – The UN rights chief on Wednesday slammed the “extreme brutality” of the year-long war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, voicing alarm that a recent state of emergency would inflame the situation. Speaking in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet insisted on the need to bring to justice perpetrators of a vast array of rights abuses, including horrific killings … Read more
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Tuesday booted Ethiopia from a vital trade pact due to rights concerns as the historic US ally declared a state of emergency over rebel advances north of the capital. Frustrated after repeated warnings to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed about suffering in the nearly year-old war, the Biden administration said it … Read more
