![]() KHARTOUM: At least 199 people have been killed in Sudan’s restive Darfur in tribal clashes over the past two months, medics said on Friday, urging the government to stop the bloodshed. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopian government spokesman Legesse Tulu did not respond to requests for comment. The proposed investigative mechanism was “counterproductive and likely to exacerbate tensions,” it said, calling for the resolution to be rejected. The African Group of countries said that “any politicization of the investigation process must be avoided” and that the EU had “totally ignored its positions and advice on this delicate situation.” That joint investigation published last month found that all sides in Tigray’s conflict had committed violations that may amount to war crimes.ĭiplomats expected the vote on the resolution to be close at the 47-member-state forum. He added that the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission had already worked with the UN rights office to investigate accusations of abuses, and was ready to do so again. The US called for the resolution’s adoption and for the Ethiopian government to “release all civilians and allow international monitors timely access to detainees.”Įthiopia’s Zenebe rejected the resolution and said the government would not work with any such commission. If adopted, it would set up an international commission of rights experts on Ethiopia to investigate and report back after a year. The forum will consider a draft resolution brought by the EU that condemns violations by all sides. “I also deplore increasing hate speech and incitement to violence by federal and regional authorities, as well as other public figures, particularly targeted against Tigrayans and members of the Oromo community,” she added. ![]() Thousands of civilians have died and millions have fled in the conflict between the federal government and rebellious forces including fighters loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which dominated Ethiopia’s ruling coalition for nearly 30 years.Īl-Nashif said people had been detained in Oromiya and Benishangul-Gumuz regions this month. “Ethiopia is being targeted and singled out at the Human Rights Council for defending a democratically elected government, the peace and the future of its people,” he said. ![]() This is tantamount to enforced disappearance, and a matter of very grave concern,” she told a special session of the UN Human Rights Council.Įthiopia’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Zenebe Kebede, did not comment directly on the accusations of detentions, but said that there was a failure to condemn what he said was a series of abuses by rebellious forces from the northern Tigray region. “Many are detained incommunicado or in unknown locations. GENEVA: All sides in the deepening conflict in northern Ethiopia are committing severe human rights violations and should pull back from their year-old war, the UN said.Īn estimated 5,000 to 7,000 people are detained, including nine UN staff, under a state of emergency and its “excessively broad provision” declared by the government last month, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al-Nashif, said. Opposition veterans the Front of Socialist forces (FFS) won an absolute majority in 47 municipalities, many of them in the restive Kabylie region. In 552 municipalities it will have to govern alongside its allies, including the RND, which won absolute majorities in 58 city councils. The FLN won absolute majorities in 124 out of the country’s 1,541 municipalities, but lost majorities in 479 of the 603 it had controlled. He had previously rejected any comparison with local ballots under Bouteflika, which were marked by widespread fraud. Saturday saw 36.6 percent turnout for the local elections and 34.8 percent for regional polls, Cherfi said. In November last year, less than 24 percent of the electorate approved amendments to the constitution, while at parliamentary elections in June, voter participation hit a record low of 23 percent. Saturday’s vote was an important test for President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, elected in a contentious, widely boycotted 2019 ballot months after Bouteflika stepped down under pressure from the army and the Hirak pro-democracy protest movement. Independents came third with 4,430 seats, Charfi told journalists. The FNL, which led the country’s war of independence from France and was for decades its only party, won 5,978 seats nationwide, followed by its traditional ally the Democratic National Rally (RND) with 4,584, electoral board chief Mohamed Charfi said. ALGIERS: Algeria’s long-dominant National Liberation Front has narrowly won local elections, preliminary results showed Tuesday, in a vote seen as key in efforts to turn the page on late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s rule.
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