Ethiopia’s Tigray region urges federal intervention after town seized
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Reuters Officials administering Ethiopia’s Tigray region asked for federal help on Wednesday as a faction of the main regional party seized control of a town, stoking fears of a return to conflict in the war-scarred region. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) runs Tigray’s interim administration, established in 2023 as part of […]
Essay: Nine million Ethiopian children have been forced out of school – what the government must do
TEBEJE MOLLA, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the causes and impacts of Ethiopia’s education crisis…
Global reaction to the US presidential election
Reuters World leaders rushed to congratulate Republican Donald Trump on Wednesday after he claimed victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, which would cap a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, President of Ukraine “I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the ‘peace through […]
Thousands gather in Ethiopia’s capital to celebrate a religious festival. Many are thinking of peace
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia AP Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the capital Thursday to celebrate an annual religious festival distinguished by the lighting of bonfires according to the beliefs of the local Orthodox Christian faithful. National celebrations of the festival, known as Meskel, traditionally happen in a square by the same name in Addis Ababa. It […]
More than 100 people kidnapped for ransom in Ethiopia last week, US envoy says
Addis Ababa Reuters At least 100 people, including students, were kidnapped for ransom last week in Ethiopia’s restive regions that have seen sporadic fighting since the end of the civil war in Tigray, the US ambassador to Addis Ababa said on Monday. While a peace agreement signed in November, 2022, has resulted in a measure […]
Ethiopia extends state of emergency in Amhara
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Reuters Ethiopia’s parliament on Friday extended by four months a state of emergency declared in August to respond to an insurgency in the northern region of Amhara that has resulted in hundreds of deaths and drawn accusations of widespread human rights abuses. Fighting erupted in Amhara last July between federal forces and […]
Explainer – How Ethiopia’s quarrel with Somalia could destabilise Horn of Africa
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Ethiopia’s deal to lease a port in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland has infuriated the government in Mogadishu and prompted concern it will further destabilise the Horn of Africa region. Under a memorandum of understanding signed on 1st January, landlocked Ethiopia would lease 20 kilometres around Somaliland’s port of Berbera for 50 […]
First international aid arrives in Ethiopia’s Tigray since ceasefire
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Tuesday welcomed the first international aid delivery since a truce to end fighting, with the International Committee of the Red Cross driving two medical trucks to the capital of the war-ravaged area. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and Tigrayan forces signed a ceasefire on 2nd November to […]
Parties to war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region agree to stop fighting
Pretoria, South Africa Reuters The Ethiopian Government and regional forces from Tigray agreed on Wednesday to cease hostilities, a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough two years into a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions and left hundreds of thousands facing famine. Just over a week after formal peace talks mediated by the African Union began in […]
Ethiopia’s Abiy wins Nobel Peace Prize for resolving conflict with Eritrea
Oslo, Norway Reuters Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his peacemaking efforts which ended two decades of hostility with longtime enemy Eritrea. Though Africa’s youngest leader still faces big challenges, he has in under two years in power begun political and economic reforms that promise a better […]