ESAT News (December 19, 2018) Over 80,000 people were forced to flee Moyale, Ethiopia’s town on the southern border, in a week of deadly ethnic violence. Clashes between the Somali Gare and Borena Oromo communities in Moyale flared up again last week over territories claimed by both sides. At least  21 people were killed last week. The report by Deutsche ...

ESAT News (December 19, 2018) A further 13 people were killed on Monday in Ethiopia’s southern border town of Moyale in clashes between the Somali Gare and Borena Oromo communities. Eight people were also killed in an attack on a hotel in which federal forces are accused of involvement. The BBC Afaan Oromo quoting an official reported that 12 people ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (December 17, 2018) About 600,000 people have been displaced in Moyale in the past eight months while at least 21 people were killed in renewed clashes over the weekend between the Somali Gare and Borena Oromo communities in Moyale, Southern Ethiopia. At least one hundred people have also been injured in the fight while residents ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 14, 2018) Twelve people were killed in the past three days of renewed ethnic conflict in Moyale, Southern Ethiopia, as seventeen others were wounded. Legal and human rights advisor to the President of the Somali region, Jamal Diriye said the new round of clashes between the Somali and armed Oromo groups is feared to ...

ESAT News (May 7, 2018) Several people are feared dead after the Somali Liyou police exchanged fire with the Oromo police force in Southern Ethiopia. The renewed clashes in the town has also triggered further displacement of people who crossed into Kenya. Clashes between the Garre tribe on the Somali side and the Oromo communities in Southern Ethiopia has been ...

ESAT News (April 19, 2018) The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa has denounced recent killings in Moyale and Guji towns in Southern Ethiopia. The League accused the Somali region Liyou police, on orders of regime generals, of perpetrating the killings in Moyale town on Tuesday where four people were killed in a grenade thrown at a bus ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (April 17, 2018) Four people were killed and over sixty others injured when a bomb was thrown at a bus terminal in the Southern Ethiopian town of Moyale. Sources sent to ESAT gruesome pictures of the aftermath of the bomb attack which local officials blamed on the Somali Region Liyou Police. Security officials in the ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 30, 2018) A parliamentary inquiry team formed to investigate the killings of civilians that led to massive displacement in Moyale town early this month has been ordered not to travel to the area just before it was about to depart the capital Addis Ababa. The twelve member inquiry board formed by the House of ...

ESAT News (March 27, 2018) The International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies said 100 Ethiopian households were migrating to Kenya and projected that the population could reach 15,000 by the end of this month. The figure does not include those migrants who are under the care of relatives on the Kenyan side. About 40,000 people fled to ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 20, 2018) The Global Alliance for the Rights of Ethiopians has donated 10,000 dollars to victims of recent attack and displacement in Southern Ethiopia who fled to Kenya following killings by Ethiopian regime army in Moyale town a week ago. The donation was handed over to representatives of the American Red Cross and it ...