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The government blames the former Tigray leaders and claims normalcy has returned in the region of six million people. It has denied widespread profiling and targeting of Tigrayans.
He replaces Debretsion Gebremichael, whose immunity from prosecution was removed Thursday.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a \"massacre\" in the Tigray region, that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party.
The \"massacre\" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
\"Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,\" the rights group said in a report.
Amnesty said it had \"digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.\"
The dead \"had gaping wounds that appear to have been inflicted by sharp weapons such as knives and machetes,\" Amnesty said, citing witness accounts.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by TPLF-aligned forces after a defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian military, though Amnesty said it \"has not been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings\".
It nonetheless called on TPLF commanders and officials to \"make clear to their forces and their supporters that deliberate attacks on civilians are absolutely prohibited and constitute war crimes\".
Abiy ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on federal military camps -- a claim the party denies.
The region has been under a communications blackout ever since, making it difficult to verify competing claims on the ground.
Abiy said Thursday his army had made major gains in western Tigray.
Thousands of Ethiopians have fled across the border into neighboring Sudan, and the UN is sounding the alarm about a humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
Dina Mufti says \"sanctions are not necessary for the US to send its message across the country\" and that it is Ethiopia that has to \"deal with its internal affairs.\"
Lubango — The vice-governor for political, economic and social Affairs of the southern Huila province, Maria Chipalavela, Wednesday, here urged entrepreneurs benefiting from State financial support for stricter use of the amounts allocated.
Speaking to the press at the end of a meeting of the Provincial government, which analyzes the economic situation of the region, the official explained that local entrepreneurs may already benefit in June, from the financial aid to cope with difficulties caused by Covid-19.
Without revealing the amounts to be made available to local entrepreneurs, the vice-governor explained that the measure will allow companies and cooperatives of small producers to continue their activity, despite the difficulties caused by the new coronavirus pandemic.
Maria Chipalavela also underscored that micro, small and medium enterprises contribute to the increase of production and economic development of the country, as well as generating jobs.
The local government is betting on the promotion of family agriculture in order to guarantee the food self-sustainability of the region's population and to create surpluses of products from the countryside in order to be sold to the main national market, the official said.
[UN News] The dire shortage of food, water, fuel and cash in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia is seriously affecting people there, including aid workers, the United Nations reported on Tuesday, citing its humanitarian affairs office, OCHA.
[Nation] French President Emmanuel Macron has called for dialogue between the Ethiopian government and a rebel group, Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), in order to get a lasting solution to the conflict in the Tigray region, the Elysee Palace said in a statement.
Police in Nyanga, Cape Town, are probing a case of murder after Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association boss Victor Wiwi was shot and killed.
Tanzanians on the street speak with sadness on the death of President John Magufuli. Magufuli, died Wednesday aged 61 from a heart condition.
[New Times] Prosecution has asked court to hand a 25-year jail term to Callixte Nsabimana, the former spokesperson and second vice president of MRCD-FLN, a DR Congo-based terror outfit that killed scores and left many injured in southwestern between 2018 and 2019.
UNDERFIRE opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lost legal battle for control of the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, popularly known as Harvest House, after the High Court ruled in his rival Thokozani Khupe’s favour.
High Court judge Justice David Mangota yesterday dismissed two applications by Chamisa’s party trying to regain control of the party headquarters after it was grabbed by the Khupe-led MDC-T early this month with the help of the police and soldiers.
Buoyed by a March 30 Supreme Court ruling recognising her as the legitimate MDC-T acting president ahead of Chamisa, Khupe went on a warpath recalling MDC Alliance legislators and taking over the party headquarters in central Harare — generally regarded as the citadel of opposition politics.
Before the judgment, Chamisa went on social media platforms urging his supporters to rise against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, saying the social contract between citizens and government had irretrievably broken.
“There is a liquidity crunch, coupled with food insecurity, high unemployment and high incapacitation across people, workers, government, business and absence of external support, the economy is heading for total collapse.”
