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africanews
April 17, 2018
Moyale, a town which shares a border with Kenya, made headline months back after security forces killed nine people in a botched intelligence operation. The situation forced thousands of residents to flee into Kenya. PM Abiy, who took over from Hailemariam Desalegn, is tasked with political reforms andÃâà...
africanews
April 16, 2018
Then on March 15, the Addis Standard portal confirmed the arrest of Taye Dendea, a lawyer and head of the Oromia regional state's justice bureau. He was arrested for disputing the army's account of a 'mistaken' raid that killed nine people in the town of Moyale. Both were held at the Maekelawi prisons inÃâà...
africanews
April 15, 2018
The Ethiopian prime minister has pledged to reform the security and intelligence forces of the country, saying his government will focus on establishing a system of ... In a recent mishap, soldiers launched an attack that killed at least 12 civilians and wounded many in the southern border town of Moyale.
UNHCR
March 29, 2018
The Ethiopian government said its soldiers mistakenly killed nine civilians and wounded a dozen others. The soldiers involved had been disarmed and a delegation had been sent to the region to investigate the killings, it added. Forty-eight hours after arriving in Moyale with her husband and five children,Ãâà...
ReliefWeb
March 21, 2018
This family is among around 9,700 asylum seekers that arrived in Moyale over the last few days from the Oromia region of Ethiopia. The refugees allege 13 people were killed when Ethiopian soldiers attacked their villages, in a raid on opposition areas. Oromia has been the scene of protests and violenceÃâà...
africanews
March 21, 2018
Over 8,000 civilians crossed into Kenya from Moyale, seeking asylum after a botched military operation left nine citizens dead. A military team ostensibly dispatched to intercept a banned armed group, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) members ended up acting on wrong intelligence leading to the incident.
africanews
March 19, 2018
At the time of Assefa Abyou's press conference, over 9,600 asylum seekers had fled the border town of Moyale into Kenya according to Kenyan media reports. The federal police chief according to the state-affiliated FBC said government was “undertaking various activities to bring them back home.”.
Іnsіdеr Cаr Nеws
March 14, 2018
... Ethiopia passed the borderline with Kenya to ask for shelter in this country after a shooting in the city of Moyale in which nine civilians died. The asylum seekers, majority of them being women and children, began streaming into Kenya on Saturday night, KRCS said. Ethiopian State media said on SundayÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 14, 2018
State-owned Oromia Broadcasting Network put the number of people who fled to Kenya at 50,000, citing Moyale Mayor Aschalaw Yohannes. More than two years of protests in Ethiopia's Oromia and Amhara regions have left hundreds of people dead, while recent conflict between the Oromia and SomaliÃâà...
Yahoo News
March 14, 2018
Ethiopian state media reported on Sunday that soldiers had been deployed to an area near the town of Moyale in Oromiya, a region that borders Kenya, in pursuit ... In a statement on Tuesday, the Kenyan Red Cross Society said "the population of refugees from Ethiopia continues to increase" and was nowÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 14, 2018
Ethiopia's Oromia state said it has dispatched a team to Kenya to track thousands of its compatriots, who are reported to have fled after Ethiopian security forces killed nine civilians and injured 12 others in Moyale town, which borders Kenya. On Tuesday, the command post set up to oversee theÃâà...
Nasdaq
March 14, 2018
But faulty intelligence led soldiers to launch an attack that killed nine civilians and injured 12 others, the state-run Ethiopian News Agency said. "The Kenyan Red Cross Society has received at least 2,000 Ethiopian asylum seekers in Moyale Town following their displacement from Ethiopia," the aidÃâà...
Daily Nation
March 14, 2018
Some of the refugees who fled Shawa-Bare in Ethiopia on Saturday due to conflict take refuge at Sessi Camp in Moyale, Marsabit County on March 13 2018. ... The more than 8,000 Ethiopian refugees, who have arrived in Moyale Town, Marsabit County, Tuesday narrated how they were flushed out of theirÃâà...
africanews
March 14, 2018
Ethiopian state media reported on Sunday that soldiers had been deployed to an area near the town of Moyale in Oromia, a region that borders Kenya, ... Refugees from Ethiopia had begun to arrive in Kenya on March 10, it said, adding that they were mostly women and children, including“pregnant andÃâà...
OPride.com
March 14, 2018
(OPride)—Tens of thousands of people have fled across the border into Kenya following a weekend military assault on civilians in Ethiopia's Moyale town, which left at least 10 people dead and 11 others wounded. The displaced residents, most of them women and children, are receiving assistance fromÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
March 6, 2018
According to Moyale export director Ali Mumin, small businesses were the hardest hit by the power surge in the electricity supplied from Ethiopia. He said a majority of residents are also cut off from communication after the mobile phones run out of power, with M-pesa and other mobile money transfer outletsÃâà...
Equal Times
December 31, 1999
Her meagre belongings – some bedding, a few utensils and a couple of items of clothing – are gathered in a small heap by her side. She has a view of the hills that obscure the Ethiopian side of Moyale, a market town on the Ethiopian-Kenyan border that is split between the two countries, near to whereÃâà...
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