Nine Chinese citizens in Gebre Guracha, a town in northern Oromiya, came under armed attack on Monday evening and one was shot dead, the Chinese embassy in Ethiopia said in a statement on Tuesday. The Chinese embassy added that border areas between Oromiya and other states have seen frequent armed attacks, kidnappings, and robberies, making security risks extremely high. Last week, unidentified gunmen briefly abducted dozens of workers of Nigeria's Dangote Cement in Oromiya region. The violence in Oromiya is separate from a two-year war between the federal government and regional forces in the northern region of Tigray, which stopped in November, when the Ethiopian government and Tigray forces signed an agreement to end the hostilities. (Reporting by Eduardo Baptista; Additional reporting by Dawit Endeshaw in Addis Ababa; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)

Source: Ethiopian News January 31, 2023 22:52 UTC