Ethiopia: Abiy Ahmed pardoned the main opposition figures including five leaders of the TPLF
Some of the political prisoners amnestied by the Prime Minister on Friday, January 7, are already out of prison. Abiy Ahmed took advantage of the […]
Tigray
Ethiopia: Tigrayan forces announce withdrawal to their departure zone for humanitarian reasons
Ethiopian rebels from Tigray, who had advanced in recent months into the neighboring regions of Amhara and Afar, are retreating to their region in order […]
Ethiopian government accuses the West of dramatizing the situation
The war continues between the federal government and the rebel coalition led by the Tigrayan insurgency. For several days now, the front has stabilized about […]
Khartoum accuses Ethiopian army of killing Sudanese soldiers
The Sudanese army announced on Saturday the death of “several” of its soldiers in an attack by Ethiopian forces in the disputed Al-Fashaga region, reigniting […]
Ethiopia: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on the front line, according to state media
The head of government had announced that he would go to the battlefield earlier this week to stop the advance of the tiger and Oromo […]
Ethiopia: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vows to go to the front amid advance of the rebels
With the coalition of Tigrayan and Oromo rebels less than 200 km from the Ethiopian capital, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that he would personally […]
Release of six UN staff members arrested in Ethiopia
Six U.N. staff members have been released but five others, along with a deputy, are still being held in Addis-Ababa, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told […]
Sixteen UN workers arrested in Ethiopia
Sixteen Ethiopian U.N. staff were detained Tuesday by the authorities after a major raid targeting Tigrayans, as the international community continues to believe in a […]
Ethiopia: An Oromo rebel leader promises a victory “very soon
A leader of the Oromo armed group OLA, which is fighting the Ethiopian government alongside Tigrayan rebels, said his fighters were near the capital and […]
Ethiopian rebels threaten to take the capital Addis Ababa
The capture of the capital Addis Ababa is “a matter of months, if not weeks,” an ethnic Oromo rebel group allied with the TPLF Tigrayans […]