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Relatives and residents gather to mourn the death of their beloveds in a collective ceremony close to the scene of a landslide in Kencho Shacha Gozdi on July 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The death toll from landslides in a remote region of southern Ethiopia has risen to 257, the United Nations said on…
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Humanitarian agencies were scrambling on July 23 to send desperately needed aid to a remote area of southern Ethiopia where a landslide has killed more than 200 people in the deadliest such disaster recorded in the Horn of Africa nation. Crowds gathered at the site of the tragedy in an isolated and mountainous area of…
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In this handout photo released by Gofa Zone Government Communication Affairs Department, hundreds of people gather at the site of a mudslide in the Kencho Shacha Gozdi district, Gofa Zone, southern Ethiopia, on July 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP At least 157 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that…
At least 55 people were killed in a landslip in a remote area of southern Ethiopia on July 22, local authorities said, warning that the death toll could rise. “More than 55 bodies have been found from the landslide,” a statement from the Gofa Zone Communications Affairs Department said, quoting local Chief Dagmawi Zerihun, who…
Police in Ethiopia’s war-scarred region of Tigray arrested and baton-charged opposition leaders and supporters ahead of planned demonstrations on September 7, a protest organiser and a local journalist said. A coalition of three opposition parties had called for demonstrations against the region’s interim administration led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which dominated Ethiopian…
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