On July 10, 2014, IDA-ISESP called for assembly in Dawhan from seven Irob tabias. Purpose of this assembly was to give recognition and awards to 60 top scoring students from grades 5-12 of Irob District. Parents, teachers, Irob Woreda Education office workers, Ato. Taddesse Hagos (Irob Woreda chairman) and the Woreda’s Cabinet had participated very eagerly and actively. (To read the full text, CLICK HERE!)

“… I have studied many ethnic communities throughout the past history of the United States. None have I found that hate and disparage the governments of their respective original home countries as much as many of the Ethiopian Diasporas do, which led me to conclude that Ethiopians in general love the abstract notion of an Ethiopia, but hate and disrespect the concrete Ethiopians right next to us…” (Tecola W. Hagos).
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First, here at IRROB.org, we would like to express our deepest sorrow and words of consolations to the mournful Irob families who lost their loved ones as well as to the entire Irob people who have been deeply affected by losing their relatives and friends in a terrible transportation-vehicle-accident occurred on May 31, 2014 in the Irob Woreda, located in the northeastern Tigray, Ethiopia. According to the various source of information received through mobile phone-calls, an Isuzu truck carrying some grain or commodities from the marketplace and overcrowded number of people (30-40) was heading towards Aiga when it rolled backward unable to climb up the dusty-hill-road ending up in a disastrous-down-hill cliffs along with the overcrowded passengers causing horrific fatalities of 11 people and serious injuries to other survivors. (To read the full text, CLICK HERE!)