Nearly 5,000 people have fled to Kenya from the Ethiopian border town of Moyale after the weekend shooting of nine civilians by troops, the Kenyan Red Cross said Tuesday. "Approximately 5,000 refugees have arrived in Moyale, the majority being women and children," a Red Cross statement said. A Moyale resident said Ethiopian soldiers were trying to seek out Oromo activists. "There is continued aggression and harassment which creates fear and forces people to flee," the local resident told AFP. A 10-month state of emergency imposed in October 2016 quelled much of that violence, but the government remains unpopular among the Oromo, Ethiopia's largest ethnicity who inhabit Oromia.

Source: Ethiopian News March 13, 2018 19:07 UTC