Gambella Community Development

Canada: Two S. Sudanese young men shot dead in N.E Calgary

December 31. 2020 (GCDC) - Calgary police have identified the two young men found dead in a vehicle in the city’s northeast earlier this ...

Canada: 15-year-old S. Sudanese girl kill herself near Calgary; family believes bullying is to blame

September 09, 2020 (GCDC) - The family of a 15-year-old South Sudanese. the girl who took her own life on Friday says she had been bullied for more than a ...

Edmonton Ethiopian Community Association reeling after building vandalized

Edmonton, Canada, August 10, 2020 (GCDC) - Members of an Edmonton Ethiopian group are disheartened after an apparent vandal smashed windows at their community centre and defaced their ...

Canada: Edmonton’s Ethiopian Community protest at the Alberta Legislature

July 11, 2020 (GCDC) - Members of Edmonton’s Ethiopian community gathered at the Alberta Legislature on ...

Ethiopian Community members who work for Smithfield meat processing, Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls, S.D. April 17, 2020 (GCDC) - A meat processing plant in South Dakota has become the biggest single-source hotspot of coronavirus cases in the United States, with at least 518 employees ...

Ethiopia: 13 Canadian charity workers and volunteers detained in Gondar

February 29, 2020 (GCDC) - Canadian Humanitarian, a charity registered in Medicine Hat, AB., confirmed in a statement posted to its website Saturday that 10 Canadian volunteers, three Canadian staff ...

Working hours changed in Gambella region due to rising temperature

February 11, 2020 (GCDC) - Public service working hours change introduced in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. The change is made due to the rise in temperature in the ...

Fighting in S. Sudan's Maiwut led to a new influx of refugees into Gambella region

November 21, 2019 (GCDC) - Localized clashes between armed forces in South Sudan's Maiwut have led to a new influx of refugees into Ethiopia's Gambella regional state, the European Civil Protection ...