Tag Archives: Moyale killings

Ethiopia: Several people feared dead in renewed clashes in Moyale town

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 ...

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Ethiopia: Parliamentary inquiry into Moyale atrocities suspended

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 ...

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Ethiopian group donates 10,000 USD to compatriots displaced from Moyale

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 ...

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Kenya & region should prepare for implosion of Ethiopia, experts warn

ESAT News (March 16, 2018) The crisis in Ethiopia is catching the headlines in Kenya media and analysts in the nightly television warn of the regional consequences if the country implodes. At least 40,000 Ethiopians fled to Kenya after the army killed a dozen people last Saturday in the border town of Moyale in what Ethiopian regime officials say was ...

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Kenya Red Cross says 8,500 Ethiopians seeking asylum

ESAT News (March 15, 2018) The Kenya Red Cross said the number of people coming to the country seeking asylum has continued to increase after Ethiopian military killed 13 and injured dozens of people last Saturday in Moyale, a town bordering the two countries. The Kenya Red Cross announced in a press release that 8,500 people have arrived at Marsabit, ...

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Ethiopia: Oromo official detained for demanding justice for Moyale killings

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 15, 2018) An official has been detained in Ethiopia for denouncing the regime and demanding justice for the killing of 13, maiming and displacement in Moyale town, in Southern Ethiopia. Taye Denda’a, communication head with the Oromia regional Justice Bureau is the sixth Oromo official to be detained by the regime for decrying the ...

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