Anuak Militants
The Gambela conflict refers to sporadic conflicts in the Gambela Region of Ethiopia between armed groups of the indigenous Anuak people with civilians of the indigenousNuer people, and the Ethiopian National Defense Force, Ethiopian military. Following Resettlement and villagization in Ethiopia, resettlement policies implemented by the Derg regime in the 1980s, a number of ethnic conflicts have taken place between the Anuak people indigenous to much of the Gambela region, and other groups which were resettled in the region. Following the collapse of the Derg regime, persistent ethnic tensions in the region have occasionally exploded into open conflict. Such conflict erupted in the early to mid 2000s, coinciding with an increase in petroleum extraction in the region, and led to a number of incidents resulting in the large-scale deaths of civilians. The Ethiopian military has intervened to combat Anuak militias. Anuak activists have claimed that ethnic Anuaks in Ethiopia have suffer ...
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Gambela In Ethiopia
Gambela or Gambella may refer to: Places * Gambela Region, Ethiopia * Gambela, Ethiopia, a city and separate woreda in Gambela Region * Gambela Zuria, ''Greater Gambela'', a woreda surrounding the city of Gambela * Gambela National Park * Apostolic Vicariate of Gambella People * Ittocorre Gambella (fl. 1127–1140), regent of the Giudicato of Logudoro * Marta Gambella (born 1974), Italian Olympic softball player See also * Babo Gambela Babo Gambela is one of the 180 woredas of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mirab Welega Zone, it is bounded by Jarso (Welega), Jarso and Nejo (woreda), Nejo in the east, Mana Sibu and Kiltu Kara (woreda), Kiltu Kara in the north, Begi, Oro ...