Ethiopians celebrate Easter with calls for charity and peace
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia AP Ethiopians marked Easter festivities Sunday with vows to embrace sacrifice, love and peace in a country facing armed conflict and other challenges. During Fasika, as Easter is known, Christians of all denominations – including the majority Orthodox group – come together to celebrate Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection. Traders herd their sheep to sell […]
Postcards: An Ethiopian church in Washington DC preserves an ancient language and Orthodox tradition
LUIS ANDRES HENAO, of Associated Press, reports from the DSK Mariam Church in the US capital…
African church leaders defend migrants after Libya bans humanitarian aid agencies
Nairobi, Kenya RNS African church leaders are speaking out against Libya’s move to shut down humanitarian organisations providing care to migrants and refugees being held in detention centres in the North African country. The move is the latest signal of Libya’s determination not to become a resettlement zone for migrants fleeing violence in the Horn […]
Detention of South Sudan’s VP Machar cancels peace deal, his party says
Reuters The detention of South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said on Thursday. The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan called for restraint, saying the country stood on the brink of relapsing into widespread conflict. “This will not only devastate […]
One million malnourished children in Nigeria and Ethiopia risk losing aid, UNICEF says
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The United Nations children’s agency said it will run out of its supply of lifesaving food to treat children suffering from acute forms of malnutrition in Ethiopia and Nigeria within the next two months due to lack of funding exacerbated by Trump administration cuts to foreign aid. Some 1.3 million children under […]
Ethiopia’s army says it killed more than 300 Fano militiamen in two days of fighting
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Reuters Ethiopia’s army said on Friday its troops had killed more than 300 fighters from the Fano armed group in two days of clashes in the northern Amhara region, as fears have emerged of a wider regional war. The Fano militia fought alongside the army and Eritrean forces in a two-year civil […]
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 […]
African leaders to push for slavery reparations despite resistance
Reuters African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can expect to be stonewalled by former colonial powers, most of which have ruled out making amends for historical wrongs. While the issue of reparations has gained momentum worldwide, so has the backlash. US President […]
Fighting hunger: How the halt in US aid is crippling global efforts to feed the hungry
JAIMI DOWDELL, LENA MASRI, RYAN MCNEILL, GIULIA PARAVICINI and NAFISA ELTAHIR, of Reuters, report on the impacts of the US aid freeze…
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…