Ethiopia: Foreign Minister Taye Atske Selassie elected President
Ethiopia has a new President. On Monday, October 7, Parliament elected Foreign Minister Taye Atske Selassie to succeed Sahle-Work Zewde, Ethiopia’s first female Head of […]
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Ethiopia starvation: Tigray and Amhara regions are again at risk of sliding into famine
It’s been just over a year since the devastating war in Ethiopia’s Tigray came to an official end and experts have now warned that the […]
The Orthodox holy city of Lalibela in Ethiopia under attack
Fighting has been going on since Wednesday morning between militiamen and federal forces in the Ethiopian holy city of Lalibela (north), located in the disputed […]
Ethiopian opposition party leader arrested
The president of Ezema, an Ethiopian opposition party with a minister in the government, was arrested on Sunday September 24 for unknown reasons and remains […]
Ethiopia’s Amhara crisis: 183 killed in unrest amid concerns about another civil war
Ethiopia’s restive Amhara region has seen at least 183 people killed since July in clashes, as Amhara fighters resist efforts by the federal government to […]
Ethiopia: Renewed fighting and “mass” Amhara arrests
Ethiopia’s human rights watchdog expressed “serious concern” on Monday August 14 about the fighting in the northern Amhara region, as well as the “massive” arrests […]
Ethiopia: Calm returns to major cities in Amhara
Calm had returned to the main towns in Ethiopia’s Amhara region by Thursday, according to residents, after several days of unrest following the federal government’s […]
Tigray: Government Forces capture key town of Shire
Tigray is caught between a joint offensive by the Ethiopian and Eritrean armies in the north and Ethiopian troops in the south, assisted by regional […]
Ethiopia: Nine members of media working in Amhara arrested
Nine people working in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region have been arrested by local authorities, their employers Nisir International Broadcasting Corporation and Ashara said. The media […]
Tigray: Nearly 40% of the population in “extreme food shortage’’
Nearly 40 percent of the population is suffering from “extreme food shortages” in the war-torn Tigray region of Ethiopia, the World Food Programme (WFP) said […]