Change description : 2025-07-03 12:50:00: Added country policy and information note: Amhara and Amhara opposition groups, Ethiopia, June 2025. [Guidance and regulation]
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Removed 'Country policy and information note: background information, including internal relocation, Ethiopia, September 2020' as it is no longer relevant.
20 December 2024
A new CPIN document has been added: Tigrayans and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, December 2024.
17 December 2024
Published 'Report of a fact-finding mission, Ethiopia: situation of the Tigrayans, December 2024'.
1 March 2024
Updated the information for actors of protection.
16 February 2024
Accessible version of 'Background information, including internal relocation' added.
22 March 2022
Removed 'Country policy and information note: report of a Home Office fact-finding mission: the political situation, Ethiopia, February 2020' and 'Country policy and information note: Oromos including the ‘Oromo Protests’, Ethiopia, October 2019'.
16 March 2022
Information added about Oromos, the Oromo Liberation Front and the Oromo Liberation Army.
1 November 2021
Removed document "Country policy and information note: opposition to the government, Ethiopia, July 2020" as it is no longer current.
8 September 2021
Added document: "Country policy and information note: report of a Home Office fact-finding mission: the political situation, Ethiopia, February 2020"
30 March 2021
Removal of the Home Office fact-finding mission Ethiopia report - the political situation, February 2020.
22 September 2020
Updated the documents 'Actors of protection' and 'Background information, including internal relocation'.
15 July 2020
Updated opposition to the government CPIN.
10 February 2020
Home Office fact-finding mission Ethiopia report, the political situation added.
3 December 2019
Added new 'Country background note: Ethiopia' document.
20 November 2019
Replaced the Country Policy and Information Note Ethiopia: Oromos document.
19 August 2019
Updated to add Country policy and information note: opposition to the government, Ethiopia, August 2019
27 November 2017
New country policy and information note on Oromos including the ‘Oromo Protests’.
27 October 2017
Background note (including actors of protection and internal relocation) published.