This Christmas season brings new hope with the release of vaccines and the start of the new year. That is Time of faith, and reminded us of the red beetle, a monument of rare devotion. 800 years ago, an Ethiopian king ordered a new capital for Christians. There are 11 …
Read More »The shadowy Ethiopian massacre could be the ‘peak of the iceberg’
UMM Rakuba, Sudan (AP) – The only survivors can agree that hundreds of people were massacred in a single Ethiopian city. Witnesses say security forces and their allies attacked civilians in Mai-Kadra with glasses and knives or strangled them with ropes. The body odor lasted for days during the initial …
Read More »Ethiopia gives alarm to refugees who fled fighting Tigers
Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Ethiopia said in a United Nations development report on Friday that it was returning thousands of refugees fleeing war in its Tigris region camps and putting them back on buses in the border area. Along with Eritrea, the country from which the refugee originally fled. The …
Read More »Ethiopia’s conflict has had a ‘terrible effect on civilians’
Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Ethiopia’s situation is “out of control with a devastating effect on civilians” and urgently needs to be monitored, the UN human rights chief warned on Wednesday, but Ethiopia is rejecting calls for an independent inquiry into its deadly fight. Saying, “He doesn’t need a baby sitter.” …
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