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2021-04-23 14:30:46 GMT2021-04-23 22:30:46(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
ADDIS ABABA, April 23 (Xinhua) Ethnic clashes in Ethiopia s northern Amhara regional state have left hundreds of people dead, an Ethiopian official said Friday.
Speaking to reporters, Endale Haile, chief ombudsman of the state-backed Ethiopia Institution of the Ombudsman, said hundreds have been killed in one-month-long sporadic ethnic clashes in Amhara regional state.
The clashes are centered in several localities in North Shoa Zone and Oromo Nationalities Administrative Zone of Amhara regional state. The ethnic clashes involving ethnic Oromos and ethnic Amharas which started on March 19 and continued sporadically for at least one month have also displaced nearly 332,000 people, Haile said in a statement. The Amhara regional state, the Ethiopian Federal government and the International Red Cross are currently undertaking efforts to rehabilitate the displaced.