news, latest-newsGunmen have killed more than 100 people in a dawn attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, the human rights commission says, as residents described fleeing the latest deadly assault in an area bedevilled by ethnic violence. The deployment of federal troops there has raised fears of a security vacuum in other restive regions. Ethiopia is also fighting an insurgency in the Oromiya region and faces long-running security threats from Somali Islamist militants along its porous eastern border. Patients told him of relatives who were killed with knives and told him that gunmen set houses on fire and shot at people trying to escape, he said. "The desire by enemies to divide Ethiopia along ethnic and religious lines still exists.

Source: Ethiopian News December 23, 2020 16:41 UTC