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Ethiopia: Prioritize victims amidst legacy of rights abuses, UN office urges

·December 31, 2023·1 min read

A joint report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission emphasized the need to implement all components of transitional justice equally. These include criminal accountability, truth-seeking, reparations, and guarantees of non-recurrence, involving effective remedies for victims, legal reforms, and...

Ethiopia: Victims ‘left in limbo’ as rights probe mandate ends

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·October 13, 2023·1 min read

The independent rights investigators’ final report comes as their mandate ended on Friday, coinciding with the end of the UN Human Rights Council’s 54th session, leaving victims in limbo. Established by the Council in December 2021, their brief from the Council was to conduct through and impartial investigations into alleged...

UN warns of heightened risk of genocide and atrocity crimes in Ethiopia

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·October 11, 2023·2 min read

“The incident reports that we see coming out of Ethiopia are deeply disturbing and constitute a call for action,” said Alice Wairimu Nderitu. “I want to particularly draw the attention of the global community to the continued presence of risk factors for genocide and related atrocity crimes in the country,”...

WFP resumes ‘vital’ food distributions to refugees across Ethiopia

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·October 10, 2023·1 min read

Families living in refugee camps, including new arrivals who have fled from Sudan, are receiving food parcels for the first time since WFP paused food distributions in June, following reports of large-scale diversions. Resuming food assistance for refugees is vital. Around 35,000 people who have fled from Sudan to Ethiopia...

Ethiopia: De-escalate tensions in Amhara, international rights experts urge

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·August 13, 2023·1 min read

On 4 August, the Ethiopian Council of Ministers declared a state of emergency in the region after, according to media reports, the regional leader said he was no longer able to contain a surge of violence between a local militia and the army over a disputed plan to absorb the...

Ethiopia: Rights experts denounce mass deportation of Eritreans

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·July 16, 2023·1 min read

According to the experts, hundreds of Eritreans were also subjected to summary deportations at the end of June. “Collective expulsions are prohibited under international law,” the experts, including Mohamed Babiker, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, said in a news release issued by the UN human...

UN suspends food assistance as Ethiopia wrestles with aid diversions

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·June 11, 2023·1 min read

“Food diversion is absolutely unacceptable,” said WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain, following a joint statement made by Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and USAID announcing their commitment to addressing deeply concerning revelations of aid diversion. “While we will temporarily halt food aid assistance in Ethiopia, nutrition assistance to children, pregnant...

WFP plan aims to prevent further food aid diversion in Ethiopia

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·May 24, 2023·1 min read

WFP had paused distributions in the restive Tigray region in the north after finding evidence of significant supplies on sale in local markets, and immediately launched an investigation. Over 20 million people are in dire need of food assistance in Ethiopia, where communities continue to be affected by the impact...

WFP pauses food distribution in Ethiopia following ‘significant diversion’ of aid

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·May 4, 2023·1 min read

“WFP takes this issue extremely seriously and will not tolerate any interference in its distribution of critical food aid to the most vulnerable women, men and children”, the agency said in a statement released on Wednesday night. The agency has already launched a comprehensive investigation, and “taken swift action to...

New settlement opens for latest Somali refugees in Ethiopia

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·April 12, 2023·2 min read

Mr. Guterres’s appeal came as the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned about the ongoing crisis faced by people displaced by violence from Somalia to Ethiopia. Relocation for the most vulnerable has begun, said UNHCR, after an uptick in violence in northern Somalia’s Lascanood city pushed close to 100,000 people to...

Ethiopia: UN refugee agency chief calls for more aid, new long-term strategy

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·February 9, 2023·2 min read

“While the last few years have been incredibly difficult for many of those affected by the conflict, I was very encouraged to see the progress made towards peace in northern Ethiopia and to witness all the efforts made in getting more aid to the people who lost everything,” Filippo Grandi...

Ethiopia: Northern aid access improving but some areas still hard to reach

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·February 3, 2023·1 min read

Associate Spokesperson Florencia Soto Niño told correspondents at the regular noon briefing in New York that aid distribution had expanded in the Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions, but some pockets remained that have not yet been accessed. Relief for 3.8 million people “Since the Cessation of Hostilities agreement in mid-November,...