Category: Legal

Thousands of Eritrean refugees sheltering at a camp in the Ethiopian Afar region, have fled following a deadly attack on the facility earlier this month, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. At a briefing for journalists in Geneva, a spokesperson the UN agency said that unidentified assailants targeted Barahle camp on 3 February […]

Fighters affiliated with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have been accused of committing atrocities including gang rape and assault in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, according to a new Amnesty International report. The Amnesty report, released on Wednesday, said TPLF fighters “deliberately killed dozens of people, gang-raped dozens of women and girls — some as young […]

ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigerian police have arrested a high-ranking police officer and four other officers for alleged involvement in an international cocaine smuggling cartel. Deputy police commissioner Abba Kyari had already been suspended since August over an indictment linking him to money laundering and fraud in the United States. A police statement Monday said the officers […]

Information Network Security Agency (INSA) said that it has mitigated more than 3,400 cyber-attack attempts over the past 6 months. Briefing journalists today, INSA Director-General, Shumete Gizaw said that this is the first time for the country to face such high number of perilous cyber-attack attempts in just 6 months. He added that the agency’s […]