Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact on security in Ethiopia of the recent killing of workers near the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam site.

We are aware of various conflicting reports of an attack on the road to Guba in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region. There has been significant unrest in this region for some time and the FCDO already advise against all travel to Pawe, Guba, Dangur, Dibati, Bulen woredas in the Metekel zone of Benishangul-Gumuz, and against all but essential travel to the rest of Metekel zone.