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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] Responsibility was attributed to a pro-TPLF youth group and forces loyal to the ...
1 July – 166 people are killed in protests after the death of Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa. [12] 29 August – 2020 Ethiopian general election [13][14][15] 4 September – Elections are announced for 8 September in Tigray Region. [16] 7 September – Journalists are banned from observing the elections in Tigray.
Current events/2020 December 8. December 8, 2020 (Tuesday) Ethiopian National Defense Force troops open fire on United Nations staffers who were trying to reach areas where "they were not supposed to go" near Sheraro in the Tigray Region, according to senior Ethiopian government official Redwan Hussein. There are no reported casualties.
Locations of conflicts worldwide in 2020. Major wars, 10,000+ deaths in 2020. Wars, 1,000–9,999 deaths in 2020. Minor conflict, 100–999 deaths in 2020. Skirmishes and clashes, fewer than 100 deaths in 2020. ← 2019 2023 →. The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2020. Conflict-related fatalities in the world's 17 ...
Portal. : Current events/2020 December 31. Allied Democratic Forces militants kill at least 25 people in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Local officials say most of the victims were farmers working in the fields, and that some victims were decapitated. (DW) Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces a change, effective ...
Current events/2020 December 25. Three United Nations peacekeepers from Burundi are killed and two others injured in the Central African Republic during two attacks by unknown gunmen. The shootings are carried out two days before the general election in the country. (BBC News)
Current events/2020 December 27. December 27, 2020 (Sunday) Boko Haram jihadists storm a village near Gamboru, Borno State, Nigeria, killing three people and kidnapping more than 40 others. It is the second mass abduction by the Islamist group this month. (Al Jazeera)
Until 2020 Amharic was the sole official language of Ethiopia. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 3 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The 2007 census reported that Amharic was spoken by 21.6 million native speakers in Ethiopia. [ 22 ] More recent sources state the number of first-language speakers in 2018 as nearly 32 million, with another 25 million second-language speakers in ...