Ambo is perhaps best known for two things: Ethiopia’s most popular mineral ... Demonstrations spread like wildfire across the vast Oromia region, feeding on decade-long frustrations over ...

AMBO, Ethiopia — For years ... were killed and hundreds wounded after rebel bishops from the southern Oromia region, home to the Oromo ethnic group, tried to install new clergy they had ordained ...

NAIROBI — A large death toll was feared as protests rocking Ethiopia's largest ethnic region continued Wednesday ... security forces in the town of Ambo, west of the capital, attempted to ...

Security forces have responded by shooting at and beating peaceful protesters in Ambo ... region. Given very tight restrictions on independent media and human rights monitoring in Ethiopia ...

Shimelis Abdisa, vice president of the Oromia region, called for an investigation ... Originally working from the U.S. state of Minnesota, Ethiopia-born and U.S.-educated Mohammed was seen as ...

In November 2020, global attention turned to the outbreak of conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region between Ethiopian ... the Hachalu’ family home in Ambo town before the burial.

AMBO, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ethiopia's new prime minister pledged on Wednesday to address grievances in his native Oromiya region, centre of violent unrest that threatened the ruling coalition's ...

The United Nations human rights office says at least 183 people have been killed in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region since July as Amhara fighters resist efforts by the federal government to ...

“This dangerous trend further undermines efforts to monitor the toll of conflict on civilians in Amhara region, instilling fear in anyone who dares to uphold the law. African and global human rights ...

Fresh fighting erupted in the second-biggest town of Ethiopia’s turbulent Amhara region as militiamen clashed with the military over government plans to disarm local forces. Fighters from a ...