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Ethiopia : The crime of kidnapping and detention by Army Generals was exposed in a report

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The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has called for urgent action to ensure accountability and justice after documenting 52 cases of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions between July 2023 and October 2024, with detentions occurring in military camps and undisclosed locations outside Addis Abeba.   In a   report   released on 23 October 2024, the EHRC outlined cases from regions including Addis Abeba, Amhara, and Oromia. The report detailed how individuals were taken from their homes or workplaces by security forces, often in unmarked vehicles and in the presence of witnesses. The Commission found that among the detained, 44 individuals were eventually released after being held for periods ranging from one to nine months, while eight remain unaccounted for. According to the report, some detainees were moved from regular detention facilities to unofficial sites, even after court proceedings had started. Several individuals were reportedly transferred between location
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Ethiopian Airlines has stopped its regular flight to Asmara

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  Ethiopian Airlines has announced that it has stopped its regular flight to Asmara from today.    The airline has said that it stopped its flight to Asmara five times a week because it is facing too many problems in Asmara Ethiopian Airlines started its flight to Asmara six years ago, it was after it stopped flying to Eritrea for 20 years.       The airline has stated that it will provide conditions for passengers who have booked tickets to travel to Asmara to travel through other airlines without extra charges.   The Eritrea Civil Aviation Authority has announced earlier that it will stop flights from September 20, 2017 as the airline is experiencing delays and theft of passengers' luggage.
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Sudan closed the Gallabat border crossing with Ethiopia

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Authorities in Sudan’s eastern Al-Qadarif state closed the Gallabat border crossing with Ethiopia on Sunday after the Fano militia seized the nearby Ethiopian town of Metemma, sources told Sudan Tribune. The Amhara region, which borders Gederaf, has frequently clashes between Fano and government forces since the federal government signed a peace deal with Tigrayan forces in 2020. The sources said the Sudanese authorities allowed Ethiopian federal police and army personnel to cross into Sudan after they were disarmed. In return, Fano allowed Sudanese stranded at the border to cross into Ethiopia. Thousands of Sudanese have crossed into Ethiopia through Gallabat since conflict broke out in Sudan in April between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Fano also seized the Ethiopian border crossing at Metemma, aiming to cut off supplies of fuel and food to the Amhara region from Sudan, the sources said.
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Ethiopia officially recognizes Somaliland as independent.

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Ethiopia has elevated its Consular Office in Somaliland to the status of an Embassy. Newly appointed Ethiopian Extra Ordinary Ambassador to Somali land Ambassador Teshome Shunde Hamito presented his credentials today to the President muse biihi in a well protocol event at Somaliland Presidential place in Hargeisa. Somaliland President welcomes new Ethiopian Ambassador,and discuses centered on regional security, economic cooperation, and strengthening ties between the two nations. as the ambassador. “We urge Somalia to stop political conspiracy in the Horn of Africa region. They have forgotten the sacrifice of the Ethiopian National Defense Force in Somalia [combating al-Shabaab] over the past couple of years, and it is painful for the Government of Ethiopia. Ethiopia cannot remain silent as the peace and harmony of its neighbors are turned into a playground for terrorists and anti-peace elements. People of the Horn of Africa are united by strong friendships and community ties and are
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Ethiopian farmers facing conflict and drought

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 What is 'food resilience'? Ask these Ethiopian farmers facing conflict and drought By  Willem Marx A s the shadows lengthen over the village of Tuli Guleed in the Somali region of southern Ethiopia, Halemu Hassan Ali and her husband, Elias Abdi Abdullahi, move methodically through row after row of knee-high wheat. Pulling up weeds that encroach on their precious crop is physically demanding. Both of them hunch low but move swiftly, their easy chatter belies the seriousness of this task. For in Ethiopia, a country repeatedly wracked by hunger — where more than 20 million
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Ethiopia: Human rights bodies failure to act as justice continues to elude victims of atrocities

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  Reacting to the continued failure to take meaningful steps by African and global human rights bodies since armed conflict erupted in Ethiopia’s Amhara region a year ago, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah said: “Millions of Ethiopians are being denied justice despite having their lives shattered by conflict. Human rights violations have continued unabated, with no progress towards individual accountability, in the Amhara region since the latest armed conflict began a year ago. Reports of atrocities in the Tigray region, which first emerged three-and-a-half years ago, and abuses amid the ongoing prolonged armed conflict in Oromia have largely gone unaddressed.  Human rights violations have continued unabated, with no progress towards individual accountability, in the Amhara region since the latest armed conflict began a year ago. Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International's Regional Director for East and Southern Africa “Despite cla
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More than 200 people have been killed in two landslides in southern Ethiopia

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   More than 200 people have been killed in two landslides in southern Ethiopia, authorities sai d. The first landslide, triggered by heavy rains in a remote region of Gofa zone, occurred on Monday and was followed by a second one that buried people who had gathered to help, state officials said on Tuesday. At least 148 men and 81 women were killed after the disaster struck in the Kencho-Shacha locality in the Gofa Zone on Monday, the local Communications Affairs Department said in a statement. (Al Jazeera) Alemayehu Bawdi, Southern Regional State representative, confirmed the death toll and said “search and rescue efforts are ongoing”. Five people were pulled alive from the mud and were receiving treatment at medical facilities, the government-owned Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) reported earlier. It cited local administrator Dagemawi Ayele as saying that most of those killed were buried after they went to help the inhabitants of a house hit by an initial land
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