Ethiopia postpones national elections scheduled for June 5th.
Ethiopia has postponed parliamentary elections scheduled for June 5, the country's electoral body announced on Saturday, adding that an extension of more than three weeks...
Egypt and Sudan both rejected Ethiopia’s plan to share data on the Renaissance dam.
Egypt and Sudan refused an Ethiopian request to exchange data on the operation of its massive hydropower dam on the Blue Nile on Saturday, after...
‘Choose – I kill you or rape you’: abuse accusations surge in Ethiopia’s war
The young coffee seller said she was split from family and friends by an Ethiopian soldier at the Tekeze river, taken down a path, and...
Ethiopian general says Eritrean troops entered Tigray
A senior Ethiopian general said in a video clip posted on social media this week that Eritrean troops had entered the country uninvited while his...
300 Ethiopian immigrants the first to make aliyah to Israel in 2021
The government decided in 2015 to help the last remaining Jews in Ethiopia make aliyah. New Ethiopian immigrants are seen at Ben-Gurion Airport on one...
Sudan taking control of land on border with Ethiopia -minister
Sudan has taken control of most of the land it accuses Ethiopians of encroaching upon near the border between the two countries, the Sudanese information...
Ethiopia says national election to be held in June
Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, the electoral board said on Friday, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed seeks to quell political and...
Gunmen kill more than 100 in attack in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region
Gunmen killed more than 100 people in a dawn attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia on Wednesday, the human rights commission said, as...
Ethiopia returning Eritrean refugees to Tigray camps; U.N. concerned over move
Ethiopia’s government said on Friday it was returning Eritrean refugees to camps they had fled in the northern region of Tigray, a move that alarmed...
U.S. thinks Eritrea has joined Ethiopian war, diplomats say
The United States believes Eritrean soldiers have crossed into Ethiopia to help Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government battle a rebellious northern force, despite denials from...
Ethiopia scorns guerrilla war fears, U.N. team shot at in Tigray
Ethiopia’s government denied on Monday that northern forces whom its troops have fought for a month would be able to mount a guerrilla insurgency, while...
Insecurity holds up aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray region, aid workers say
Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is too volatile for aid to reach hundreds of thousands of civilians in need, humanitarian workers said on Sunday, amid reports...
Why did Ethiopia’s prime minister launch an attack on Tigray?
Abiy recently got a PhD in peace and security studies from Addis Ababa University, but he’ll be concentrating on the “security” part for the foreseeable...
Ethiopia sees war ending, EU complains of partisan aid access
Ethiopia said it had captured or killed most commanders of a rebellious northern force, while Tigray’s fugitive local leader countered on Friday that civilians were...
Aid coming to north Ethiopia, refugees recount war suffering
Relief agencies in Ethiopia prepared convoys on Thursday to truck aid into Tigray region, where a month of war is feared to have killed thousands...
United Nations and Ethiopia reach aid pact for war-hit Tigray
Ethiopia and the United Nations agreed on Wednesday to channel desperately-needed humanitarian aid to the northern region of Tigray, where a month of war is...
Experts say that the Ethiopian War may become insurgency guerrilla warefare
Ethiopia’s nearly month-long war against rebellious northern forces may be transforming into a guerrilla conflict, experts said on Tuesday, even though federal troops declared victory...
In Sudan camp, a Tigray farmer once displaced by famine now shelters from war
Ethiopian farmer Berhan Halie came to Sudan 35 years ago to escape hunger. Now 65 and walking with a stick, he is back again, this...
The Tigray Forces claim to have shot down the Ethiopian aircraft, taken a city
Rebellious forces from Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray said they had shot down a military aircraft and recaptured the city from federal forces on Sunday,...
Ethiopian forces capture town, push toward Tigrayan capital, senior military official says
The Ethiopian military has seized control of the town of Wikro, 50 km (30 miles) north of the Tigrayan capital, a senior official said on...
Ethiopia to launch ‘final phase’ of offensive in Tigray region, says PM
The Ethiopian military will begin the “final phase” of an offensive in the northern Tigray region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday, after an...
Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis explained: The long, medium, and short story
A conflict between the government of Ethiopia and forces in its northern Tigray region has thrown the country into turmoil. Members of the Ethiopian Army...
Ethiopia PM gives Tigray forces 72 hours to surrender regional capital
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave Tigrayan regional forces 72 hours to surrender before the military begins an offensive on the regional capital of Mekelle....
Ethiopia rejects African mediation, pushes toward rebel-held Tigray capital
The Ethiopian government rebuffed an African effort to mediate on Saturday, saying its troops had seized another town in their march towards the rebel-held capital...
Ethiopian troops push for regional capital, rebels promise ‘hell’
Ethiopia predicted swift victory but northern rebels promised them “hell” on Wednesday in a two-week war threatening the vast nation’s unity and further destabilising the...
Rockets fired at Eritrean capital from Ethiopia, diplomats say
At least three rockets were fired at Eritrea’s capital from Ethiopia on Saturday night, five regional diplomats said, a major escalation of an 11-day conflict...
Explosions reported in two cities in Ethiopia’s Amhara state
Two explosions went off in two different cities in Ethiopia’s Amhara state, which neighbours the northern state of Tigray where federal troops are fighting local...
Ethiopians fleeing to Sudan describe air strikes and machete killings in Tigray
Civilians fleeing fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region described bombing by government warplanes, shooting on the streets and killings by machete, as they joined thousands...