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Over 142 people killed in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region

At least 100 people have died in a deadly attack in western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia early Wednesday, an area bedeviled by ethnic violence. Belay Wajera, a farmer in the western town of Bulen, told Reuters he counted 82 dead bodies in a field near his home after Wednesday’s raid. He and his family awoke […]

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Armed attack in western Ethiopia leaves 15 dead

Armed attackers killed at least 15 people in western Ethiopia, according to the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Four of the victims in Friday’s pre-dawn assault in Benishangul-Gumuz region’s Metekel Zone were women, the EHRC said in a statement, expressing “deep alarm” over a “surge in attacks against civilians” in the area. At least two […]