Multimedia Journalist, IOL Politics https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/brics-summit-ethiopian-group-protesting-outside-summit-over-alleged-human-rights-abuses-in-amhara-daecac2c-eb61-4c50-abba-0824dd691f91 The All United Amhara Association in South Africa has called on BRICS countries to stop the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed from allegedly killing thousands of innocent people in their country. Dressed in their country’s colours of green, yellow and red, the group picketed at Innesfree Park in Sandton a …
For immediate release: August 9, 2023 To: President Joseph E. Biden 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500 United States Subject: A call for the U.S. government to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide of Amhara people by the Ethiopian government. “Our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right…not peace at the expense of …
Many Tigrayans have been forcibly disappeared in recent months. Now some who have been released tell their stories. Tigrayans recently released from a military ...
A storm of contention is brewing in Addis Abeba where the city's administration has caused an uproar with the release of a confounding document from the temporary Property Tax Implementation Project Office. The missive calls for a seismic shift in property-tax calculation, fuelling taxpayers' fears and stretching legal elasticity. The murky document — which arrived under the heading “Outcome & Decision of the Study” — offers a counterintuitive proposal for an amended system of bu...
In Ethiopia, lawyers and witnesses say authorities have arrested hundreds of people in Addis Ababa. However, the federal government says it has detained only 23 people. Authorities declared a state of emergency in the Amhara region earlier this month, after fighting between the army and rebels known as Fano. Rights groups say ethnic Amharas …