Forced disarmament in the Lower Omo Valley
Wed 30 Oct 2019
Over the past few weeks we’ve been hearing reports of what sounds like excessive violence being used by Ethiopian army units against local people in the Lower Omo Valley, with the aim, apparently, of confiscating their firearms. Click here to read the first media coverage of these reports which was provided by the AFP journalist Robbie Corey-Boulet in an article in the Mail and Guardian on 17 October.