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Updated 3:11 AM ET, Thu December 24, 2020 (CNN)Gunmen killed more than 100 people in a dawn attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia on Wednesday, the human rights commission said, as residents described fleeing the latest deadly assault in an area bedeviled by ethnic violence.
The attack occurred in the village of Bekoji in Bulen county in the Metekel zone, the state-run Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said in a statement, an area where multiple ethnic groups are living.
Africa s second-most populous nation has been grappling with regular outbreaks of deadly violence since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was appointed in 2018 and accelerated democratic reforms that loosened the state s iron grip on regional rivalries.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A federal judge has temporarily blocked four new abortion restrictions hours after they took effect in Arkansas, including one that bans a procedure commonly used in the second trimester.
U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker issued a similar ruling in 2017 blocking the four laws soon after the Arkansas Legislature passed them, but the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated that order in August, saying the case needed to be reconsidered in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision involving a Louisiana case.
The laws include a ban on the second trimester procedure known as dilation and extraction. Several states have passed similar bans.
The latest bloody massacre in Ethiopia has seen gunmen slaughter more than 100 civilians before the military took revenge by killing 42 armed militants.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he was sending more soldiers to secure the region bordering Sudan, the day after unidentified gunmen killed more than 100 people in a village there