At least 50 killed in Ethiopia’s Oromia region: rights bodyAt least 50 people died in ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s Oromia region this month, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said on Wednesday. While calm has largely returned to northern Tigray region after two years of brutal war, fighting has continued in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, which is haunted by a long-running insurgency. The Oromo, Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, have long complained of marginalisation. But the region is beset with other ethnic fissures too, particularly between the Oromo and the Amhara, the country’s second-largest ethnic grouping. A Chinese national was last month killed in Gebre Guracha, a town in the Oromia region and some 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of the capital Addis Ababa.

Source: Ethiopian News February 16, 2023 05:03 UTC