Covid-19: Fifteen African countries threatened by a food crisis, FAO and WFP warned
According to a joint analysis by the World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 15 “at-risk” African countries are threatened by […]
Ethiopia
Attorney General Dismisses Amnesty Report as Fundamentally Flawed
The Federal Attorney General dismissed the Amnesty International report issued in May 2020 under the title “Beyond Law Enforcement: Human Rights Violations by Ethiopian Security […]
Negotiations have resumed on the Renaissance dam
Tripartite negotiations have quietly resumed on the Renaissance dam in a rather peculiar context, after a week of violence in Ethiopia. The negotiators had agreed […]
Eighty-one dead in Ethiopia after two days of demonstrations
Two days of protests in Ethiopia, following the death of a famous singer from the Oromo majority ethnic group, have resulted in the deaths of […]
Army announces death of rebel Kerbino Wol in South Sudan
Only ten days after launching his rebel group, Kerbino Wol was killed. The former soldier who became entrepreneur and philanthropist had been imprisoned for twenty […]
Reconciliation dialogue started between Somalia and Somaliland in Djibouti
The presidents of Somalia and the former province of British Somalia that seceded in 1991, called Somaliland, met face to face for the first time […]
Moratorium on the debts of Congo, Ethiopia and Chad
The Paris Club, which brings together all the Western countries that hold the bulk of the debts of developing countries, announced this on Tuesday. In […]
Ethiopia: Tigray People’s Liberation Front continues to challenge Abiy Ahmed’s government
The problem of the expiry of the mandate of the deputies on October 10, the possibility to extend this mandate and the maintenance of the […]
Tension rekindling over Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Relations are not calming down around the mega-dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile, as negotiations with Sudan and Egypt, countries downstream of the […]
Ethiopia admits to have shot down ‘by error’ the Kenyan plane in Somali
Ethiopia admits that it shot down the Kenyan plane carrying humanitarian aid in south-west Somalia. The crash took place early last week and all six […]