In May 2019 Xinhua reported that Ethiopia’s Federal Attorney General charged 53 people over June 2018 riots in Benishangul-Gumuz that left 16 dead, including the former mayor of Assosa and a regional special police chief among the accused.
The region along the Sudan border had seen repeated ethnic violence, and it also hosts the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile, so local security failures carried national weight.
Charging sheets after mass violence are only one step; conviction rates and whether communities feel protected are separate tests.
Kept as rights and governance archive, the 53-person indictment dates federal handling of Benishangul-Gumuz killings under Abiy Ahmed’s early government.
Sources: Xinhua