The UN says at least 183 people have been killed in Ethiopia over Amhara region unrest since JulyAn unidentified armed militia fighter walks down a path as villagers flee with their belongings in the other direction, near the village of Chenna Teklehaymanot, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia Thursday, September 9, 2021. (AP Photo, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations (UN) 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 disband them. “Many of those detained were reported to be young people of Amhara ethnic origin suspected of being Fano supporters,” the UN office said, referring to the name of the Amhara militia. Amhara fighters had fought alongside the military in the two-year conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region that ended in November with a peace agreement. The conflict spilled into the Amhara region when Tigray forces at one point tried to approach the capital, Addis Ababa.

(Photo source: Daily News Egypt)borkenaThe spokesperson of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Marta Hurtado, on Tuesday released a statement regarding the human rights situation in the country. It said at least 183 people have been killed in the Amhara region of Ethiopia since July of this year. Local Ethiopian news sources seem to have a much higher estimate of the number of civilian casualties from the war in the Amhara region. The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency early this month with the aim of controlling widespread protest in the Amhara region but the situation has been worsening. A statement from the UN human rights body said “We call on the authorities to stop mass arrests, ensure that any deprivation of liberty is judicially reviewed, and release those arbitrarily detained.

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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 disband them. "Many of those detained were reported to be young people of Amhara ethnic origin suspected of being Fano supporters," the U.N. office said, referring to the name of the Amhara militia. "Since early August, mass house-to-house searches have reportedly been taking place, and at least three Ethiopian journalists covering the situation in the Amhara region have been detained." Amhara fighters had fought alongside the military in the two-year conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region that ended in November with a peace agreement. The conflict spilled into the Amhara region when Tigray forces at one point tried to approach the capital, Addis Ababa.

At least 183 people have been killed since July in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the United Nations said Tuesday as it appealed for the killings, violence and rights abuses to end. Tension in the northern region ratcheted up this year after the end of a devastating war in the neighbouring region of Tigray that also drew in fighters from Amhara. “We are very concerned by the deteriorating human rights situation in some regions of Ethiopia,” UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Marta Hurtado told reporters in Geneva. “In Amhara region, following a flare-up in clashes between the Ethiopian military and the regional Fano militia, and the declaration of a state of emergency on August 4, the situation worsened considerably. The move triggered protests by Amhara nationalists who said it would weaken their region.

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At least 183 people have been killed since July in clashes in the Ethiopian state of Amhara, which has been plagued by violence for several weeks, the United Nations announced on Tuesday. "At least 183 people have been killed in clashes since July, according to information gathered by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights", the OHCHR spokeswoman continued. Amhara, Ethiopia's second most populous state, has been the scene of armed violence since April, triggered by the federal government's desire to disband the Amhara "special forces". "We are very concerned about the deterioration of the human rights situation in certain regions of Ethiopia", said Marta Hurtado, stressing that the state of emergency gives the authorities wide powers. Tensions in Amhara have increased since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that he wanted to dismantle the "special forces", paramilitary units created by a number of regional states.

Last November, the civil war ended with a ceasefire, nearly two years to the day after it began. The use of sexual violence by armed forces during the civil war in Ethiopia has been reported previously by the U.S. State Department and Amnesty International. But this new publication shows that as recently as June, months after the peace agreement was signed, sexual violence against women and girls has not stopped. All but one detailed conflict-related sexual violence involving girls and women from ages 8 to 69. We are alarmed by the increasing use of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict globally."

( Image Source : Getty Images )The United Nations on Tuesday said that at least 183 people have been killed so far since July in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, appealing to put an end to the killings, violence, and rights abuses. The international body said it was “very concerned” about the deteriorating human rights situation in some regions of the country. "We are very concerned by the deteriorating human rights situation in some regions of Ethiopia," UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Marta Hurtado told reporters in Geneva, according to the report. "At least 183 people have been killed in clashes since July, according to information gathered by the UN Human Rights Office." "We have received reports that more than 1,000 people have been arrested across Ethiopia under this law.

GENEVA: At least 183 people have been killed in clashes in Ethiopia's Amhara region since July, the United Nations said on Tuesday, quoting UN rights monitors . "Following a flare-up in clashes between the Ethiopian military and the regional Fano militia, and the declaration of a state of emergency on August 4, the situation worsened considerably," spokeswoman Marta Hurtado told reporters in Geneva.

FILE — An unidentified armed militia fighter walks down a path as villagers flee with their belongings in the other direction, near the village of Chenna Teklehaymanot, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. Ethiopia's government and residents say the military has recaptured several areas in the embattled Amhara region from local militia fighters, while details of dozens of civilians killed have begun to emerge from the region amid an internet shutdown. (AP Photo, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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 disband them. Amhara fighters had fought alongside the military in the two-year conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region that ended in November with a peace agreement. The conflict spilled into the Amhara region when Tigray forces at one point tried to approach the capital, Addis Ababa.

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have been negotiating over the bitterly contested Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam for years without coming to an agreement. Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have failed to come to an agreement over the contested Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile following two days of talks in Cairo which ended on Monday. The talks were aimed at reaching a legally binding agreement that would give Egypt a say in how the dam is operated and filled. Downstream states Egypt and Sudan are worried about the effect the GERD will have on their own water supplies with both heavily reliant on the Nile. RELATED Ethiopia and Egypt weigh future of Nile and nationhood In-depthLocated on the Blue Nile, the GERD has been under construction since 2011 and is nearly complete.

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One of the main opponents of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian political figure Bekele Gerba, has applied for political asylum in the United States, he told AFP on Monday, denouncing the deteriorating political situation in Ethiopia and saying he feared for his life. "I emailed my letter of resignation to the president of the OFC, Dr Merera Gudina, this (Monday) morning", Mr Bekele told AFP by telephone in the United States. In the United States, where he has been since June 2022, "I realised that the political situation in Ethiopia was constantly deteriorating" with "intimidation, mass murders and arrests", he explained. He was released in January 2022 under an amnesty, along with several Ethiopian opposition figures. Another Oromo opposition figure released at the same time as Mr Bekele was Jawar Mohamed, a former ally of the Ethiopian government.