Browsing: Ethiopia

Amnesty International has written to the Minister of Peace, Muferiyat Kamil calling for the release of Dawud Ibsaa, the chairman of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).…

The G7 Leaders have called for aid workers’ unimpeded access to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, where the UN says some 350,000 people are living in famine…

A high-level U.N.-led committee focused on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimates that some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are facing famine conditions. According…

Shutterstock Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University COVID-19 pushed much of the world into the digital realm for everything from schooling and work to religious worship and…

The United Nations reports that more than 90 percent of the Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region require emergency food aid. The UN World Food Programme says the…

More work on the dam already allows for the commencement of the second phase. Ethiopia began filling the facilities of the dam in 2020. The dam is in the advance stage of construction on the Blue Nile which shares a border with Sudan. The move has unsettled authorities in Sudan and Egypt.

An Ethiopian government official and several others have been killed after “terrorist designated” militants ambushed a government convoy that has been visiting development projects in West…

The United States on Sunday announced visa restrictions on Ethiopian and Eritrean officials accused of fuelling the six-month-old conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, saying those involved have “taken no…

Ethiopia’s Electoral Commission has announced the postponement of the country’s parliamentary elections scheduled for June 5 due to growing logistical difficulties. Election Commission Chairperson Birtukan Mideksa,…

The United Nations on Sunday confirmed that about 120 former peacekeepers from Ethiopia, where several regions including northern Tigray are hard-hit by inter-ethnic conflict, have sought asylum…