FIVE tourists have been killed and two kidnapped in an attack by an armed gang in a remote part of Ethiopia.

ETHIOPIA is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land so it can lease it to foreign investors, leaving former landowners destitute and in some cases starving, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday.

Leaders of Ethiopia’s largest opposition bloc said they have evidence of voter intimidation and vote-rigging which may lead them to reject the results of today’s national election.

Rebels stormed a Chinese-run oil field at dawn in eastern Ethiopia today, killing 74 workers and destroying the facility, the guerrilla group and government officials said.

Eight Ethiopians who had been captured along with a group of European tourists who were released earlier today made their way back to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa after being held for 52 days in one of the most inhospitable areas on Earth.