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Heaven Awot was a seven-year-old girl who was raped, mutilated and killed by her mother's landlord Getnet Baye in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia in August 2023. The case sparked public outrage and a petition for justice, but Getnet was sentenced to 25 years life in prison and appealed the decision.
On June 4, 2024, the United States-based New Lines Institute released a comprehensive 120-page report concluding that there is strong evidence of genocidal acts committed by Ethiopian forces and their allies during the Tigray war. [11] The report calls for Ethiopia to be prosecuted at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The Mai Kadra massacre was a massacre and ethnic cleansing carried out during the Tigray War on 9–10 November 2020 in the town of Mai Kadra in Welkait (a disputed area between the Amhara and Tigray Regions) in northwestern Ethiopia, near the Sudanese border. [11]
The Tigray War was a civil war that lasted from 2020 to 2022 between the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other. The war involved multiple battles, massacres, humanitarian crises, and a peace agreement in 2022.
Female soldiers in Eritrea played a major role in both the war, the Eritrean independence and the border dispute with Ethiopia. During the Eritrean war of independence more than 30% of the Eritrean military were women. They served in direct combat operations.
In 1955, the 1931 Constitution of Ethiopia was replaced with the 1955 Constitution of Ethiopia, extending the power of Parliament. Haile Selassie improved diplomatic ties with the United States, as well as Ethiopia's relationship with the rest of Africa. [citation needed] He initiated the Organization of African Unity in 1963 [citation needed].
Birhan Woldu (born 1981) is an Ethiopian who, as a child during the 1983-1985 Ethiopian famine, appeared in video footage taken while she was starving and close to death. The footage was shown at Live Aid in 1985.
One of the civilian victims of the Togoga airstrike. The EHRC–OHCHR Tigray investigation is a human rights investigation launched jointly by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in mid-2021 into human rights violations of the Tigray War that started in November 2020.