in Addis Ababa on Monday night, heightening ethnic tensions and threatening the country's democratic transition

Wednesday as violence broke out in some neighbourhoods in a second day of unrest that claimed more than country's largest Oromo ethnic group, stoked tensions that threaten to derail the country's democratic transition the arrest of Oromo leaders, creates a dangerous situation and is another blow to Ethiopia's troubled transition

Hundreds of people have been killed in the past year in the Sahel nation, and more than half a million In the past five years, more than 900 people have been killed by armed groups, while some 860,000 people Their militaries, under-equipped and poorly trained, are supported by 5,000 French troops in the region

More than one million people have been forced to flee their homes in the violence-ravaged eastern Democratic "Violence has displaced more than one million people in the last six months in these areas," the refugee More than five million people within the country's borders have been uprooted by insecurity, while nearly It was the theatre of two major wars, which ran from 1996-1997 and from 1998-2003, the second of which

Local officials say at least 19 people killed in the eastern part of country in two separate attacks by ADF fighters. At least 19 civilians have been killed in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo at the weekend in attacks blamed on a notorious armed group, local officials said. Nine people were kidnapped on Friday by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), and their bodies were found in the province of North Kivu, which borders Rwanda, regional administrator Donat Kibwana said on Sunday, adding that their burials were under way. In the neighbouring Ituri region, ADF fighters attacked the village of Bukaka late on Saturday and killed 10 civilians, local official Bananilao Tchabi told AFP news agency. Civil society leader Raphael Bon Benogo said the victims were five men, three women and two children. "Some were killed with machetes and others with firearms," he said. The ADF has been blamed for killing about 500 people since last year in retaliation for an army crackdown on their bases in the forests around the Beni region. In another incident on Saturday in Fizi, in South Kivu province, gunmen from a "coalition of armed groups" attacked an army unit, killing two soldiers, a local army spokesman said. Dozens of armed groups operate in eastern DRC, a legacy of the two Congo wars in the 1990s that pulled in neighbouring Uganda and Rwanda. The army last year launched a campaign against the ADF after the group was blamed for dozens of attacks in the region, which also struggles with inter-ethnic fighting. The ADF originated in neighbouring Uganda in the 1990s, opposed to the rule of long-serving Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. In 1995, it moved into the DRC, which became its base of operations, although it has not carried out attacks inside Uganda for years. © 2020 Al Jazeera Media Network

While the total loss may never be known, a Tigrayan official has said that more than 7,000 tons of wheat were stolen – enough grain to feed more than 450,000 people for a month. They included more than 36 million children under 5 years old who were acutely malnourished. Reporters also interviewed more than 20 people familiar with the case, including U.S., UN and Ethiopian The hunger crisis was publicized by “Live Aid,” a trans-atlantic concert in 1985 that featured major

Turkish invasion of January 2018, the Kurdish population of Afrin, northwest Syria, has fallen by more than

More than 30,000 Nigerian refugees have arrived in Niger’s Maradi region during the past two months alone as they heard the first gunshots, Habsou and her younger sister Mariama* grabbed their children and ran UNHCR is currently organizing the relocation of some of the refugees to “villages of opportunity”, more than

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) attends a meeting with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang (not pictured REUTERS/Luong Thai Linh/Pool Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) attends a meeting with Vietnamese President Tran More than 600,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim group have fled from Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s Rakhine

KYIV -- The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented more than 500 cases of ill-treatment In one, which occurred on February 26, a mother learned that her two sons had been transferred to a detention Updating the civilian death toll, Frazer said 3,332 civilians have been killed while more than 7,000

It is nothing less than that,” Sfard said. “It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation Plans for the construction of camps called “humanitarian transit areas”, to house Palestinians inside plans for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, Goldberg said, and the creation of “a concentration camp or a transit

Some scholars have proposed the term feminicide, rather than femicide, to underline the role of state to dedicate resources to combatting feminicide, and structural problems in the judicial system also translate For Moran, raising awareness is an important first step in the broader ideological and cultural transformation Despite the controversy surrounding the truce—namely the government’s lack of transparency in secretive Similarly, hate crimes against trans people and other members of the LGBTQI+ community is also a pressing