Tag: Ethiopias

MEKELE, Ethiopia (AP) — The 16-year-old girl hoped to go to war. Inspired by the sight of resurgent local forces ...

The capture of Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, by Ethiopian forces in late November was depicted by the government in Addis Ababa ...

Ethiopia has built a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile and started holding back the water flow to fill ...

Tensions between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government in Addis Ababa and leaders from the country’s northern Tigray region entered ...

Sudan, Egypt want international community to intervene ahead of Ethiopia’s plans to go ahead with the second filling of the ...

(Adds details, background)KHARTOUM, June 22 (Reuters) - Sudan asked the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to meet and discuss ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — As war raged in northern Ethiopia, and the region barreled toward its worst famine in decades, ...

Ahead of Ethiopia’s general election on Monday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been laying out his grand ambitions for the ...

Birtukan Mideksa speaks to media after the handover ceremony at the Parliament in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on November 22, 2018A ...

Ethiopia is set to hold a twice-delayed national election on Monday in what the government has heralded as a long-awaited ...

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Oromo protests in 2017 - EthiopiaWhen Abiy Ahmed became prime minister of Ethiopia three years ago, the Oromo community felt ...

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Abiy Ahmed has formed a new party for the electionEthiopia is due to hold elections on 21 June despite a ...

More than 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are suffering famine conditions, with millions more at risk, according to an ...

"There is famine in Ethiopia right now," United Nations aid chief Mark Lowcock warned on Thursday.According to the global Integrated ...

The head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church has accused government forces of carrying out “genocide” in the country’s Tigray region, ...

Six months ago, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent federal troops into Tigray for a military campaign against the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council expressed concern Thursday about humanitarian conditions and human rights in Ethiopia's ...

Egypt’s president has met his Tunisian counterpart in Cairo, where they discussed neighboring Libya, and a massive dam Ethiopia ...

Ethiopian military forces are now fighting a “difficult and tiresome” guerrilla war in the northern Tigray region, prime minister ...

Mona Lisa lay on a hospital bed in Mekelle, the main city in war-torn northern Ethiopia, her body devastated ...

Eritrea will pull its troops out of the Tigray region, Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has said, a potential ...

At least 516 rape cases reported by five medical facilities in Mekelle, Adigrat, Wukro, Shire and Axum, UN official ...

The calm is deceptive.A stubbled crater attests to a recent artillery barrage, but with its bustling streets and shops, ...

Nearly 70% of health facilities in Ethiopia's conflict-hit northern region of Tigray have been vandalised and equipment looted, a ...

Ethiopian refugees fleeing fighting in Tigray province queue to receive supplies at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan's eastern ...

An Amnesty International report says soldiers from Eritrea systematically killed “many hundreds” of people, the large majority men, in ...

Eritrean troops “went on a rampage and systematically killed hundreds of civilians in cold blood." Disclaimer: This post ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopian officials and allied militia fighters are leading a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in Tigray, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations says Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region faces a “very critical malnutrition situation” as ...

The eruption of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region 100 days ago has pitted journalists wanting to report on the ...

In a fragile refugee community on the edge of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict, those who have fled nearly two months ...

UN rights chief describes weeks-old conflict as one of many ‘appalling’ human rights abuses that could amount to war ...

The United Nations on Tuesday appealed for $156 million to help the tens of thousands of refugees who have ...

Three people died after an abandoned bomb exploded in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa on Sunday, a state news agency ...

The United Nations announced Thursday a $35.6 million emergency aid package for civilians caught up in fighting in Ethiopia's ...

Government forces have been battling the Tigray People's Liberation Front in the region since 4 NovemberFour aid workers were ...