Tag: Oromiya

Gunmen killed at least 150 people last week in western Ethiopia in an attack by an armed group against local residents, the state-appointed Ethiopian...

Gunmen killed at least 20 people last week in western Ethiopia, a regional government official said on Thursday, in what he and two residents...

Clashes between Ethiopian security forces and protesters demanding the release of an opposition politician and a media magnate have killed at least nine people...

More than 70,000 people fled ethnically-charged violence in western Ethiopia, officials said - part of an eruption of unrest piling pressure on...

At least 40 people were killed by paramilitary forces in eastern Ethiopia over the weekend, a senior regional official said, in the...

Ethiopia's government signed an agreement to end hostilities with the Oromo Liberation Front, which it previously declared a terrorist movement, state television...

Mobs looted shops and burned down properties in Ethiopia's eastern Somali region as unrest gained momentum and spread across the province following...

The UN human rights chief was allowed to visit a region in Ethiopia roiled by protests and unrest for the past three...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the weekend travelled to a region where clashes displaced nearly a million people, his first trip...

Ethiopia's new Prime Minister, Abiye Ahmed, promised to push democratic reforms in an effort to end three years of unrest that first...

Ethiopia released a senior opposition leader from prison and dropped all charges against him a day after demonstrators blocked roads and staged...

Authorities in Ethiopia's restive Oromiya province pardoned over 2,000 prisoners jailed for involvement in unrest that gripped the country in 2015-2016, officials...

At least five people were killed in Ethiopia's restive Oromiya region after police opened fire during a protest, witnesses said. Protesters blocked...

Ethnic clashes killed 11 people last week in Ethiopia's Oromiya region, a regional government official said, the latest unrest in a province...

Some 11 factories and flower farms and more than 60 vehicles have been damaged in unrest in Ethiopia in recent days, a...

Protests broke out in some areas of Ethiopia's Oromiya region on Monday, a day after dozens of people were killed in a...

More than 50 people were killed in a stampede in Ethiopia's Oromiya region that was triggered when police used teargas and shot...

More than 90 people were shot dead by security forces in protests across Ethiopia's Oromiya and Amhara regions at the weekend, residents...