The increasing importance of the Red Sea as a nexus of geopolitical competition poses security problems to countries in the region. A lack of consensus on the rules of competition among international and regional powers has only intensified the (...)
Political myopia led the Norwegian Nobel Institute to grant its once highly coveted and prestigious Nobel Peace Prize to a war criminal in 2018. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was presented with the prize by the institute when he portrayed (...)
The Ethiopian government has clearly fallen into the trap of excessive exploitation of the Renaissance Dam to political ends. As it reels beneath mounting pressures both at home and abroad, due to both the cumulative effects of erroneous policies (...)
Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh won a fifth five-year term on Saturday after an election boycotted by most of the opposition, securing over 97% of the votes cast, official data from the Interior Ministry on Saturday showed.
Friday's vote (...)
Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh won a fifth five-year term on Saturday after an election boycotted by most of the opposition, securing over 97% of the votes cast, official data from the Interior Ministry on Saturday showed.
Friday's vote (...)
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan expressed US concerns over the crisis in the Tigray region in a call with Ethopia's deputy prime minister, Demeke Mekonnen, the White House said on Thursday.
The two "discussed critical steps to (...)
The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia.
They arrive in heat that soars above 38 C (100 F), carrying the pain of gunshot (...)
An Iranian cargo ship believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen has been attacked, Iranian state television acknowledged Wednesday.
The state TV acknowledgment, citing foreign (...)
An Iranian cargo ship has come under attack in the Red Sea, Al Arabiya TV reported on Tuesday, quoting unnamed sources.
It cited the sources as saying the vessel was attacked off the coast of Eritrea and was affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary (...)
The United States, Germany, France and other G7 countries called on Friday for an independent and transparent investigation into alleged human rights abuses during the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
Ethiopia's federal army ousted the (...)
Fourteen-year-old Mibrak Esayus recalls the day last November when she says Eritrean soldiers burst into her home in Ethiopia's Tigray region and killed her mother and father.
It was 10 days into Ethiopia's military campaign against fighters from (...)
Eritrea has agreed to withdraw troops from Ethiopian territory along their common border, Ethiopia's prime minister said on Friday, days after acknowledging that Eritrean forces had entered Ethiopia's Tigray region during an almost five-month (...)
More than 500 rape cases have been reported to five clinics in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the United Nations said on Thursday, warning that due to stigma and a lack of health services the actual numbers were likely to be much higher.
"Women say they (...)
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed admitted Tuesday that troops from neighbouring Eritrea were present in the conflict-torn Tigray region, after months of denials from both countries.
'However, after the Eritrean army crossed the border and was (...)
Eritrean authorities described European Union sanctions targeting a security agency Monday as 'malicious' and charged the EU with having 'ulterior motives'.
Eritrea was one of three African nations subject to EU sanctions announced Monday for (...)
Ethiopia's prime minister issued a 'final notice' Friday to the fugitive leaders of the country's embattled Tigray region, saying they should surrender peacefully to avoid 'severe punishment' and prevent the 'misery of their people'.
At the same (...)
United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has agreed to an Ethiopian request for a joint investigation in the country's northern Tigray region, where Bachelet says possible war crimes may have been committed.
Fighting between government (...)
U.S. President Joe Biden is sending Senator Chris Coons to Ethiopia to meet with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and convey the president's "grave concerns" over the humanitarian crisis in the Tigray region, where thousands have died following fighting. (...)
Health facilities in Ethiopia's embattled region of Tigray have been ``looted, vandalized and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on health care,`` the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said Monday.
Nearly 70% of 106 health (...)
A total of 65 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2020 while doing their jobs, according to the International Federation of Journalists.
That is 17 more than in 2019, and the death toll is around the same level as in the 1990s, (...)
The State Department on Friday said Washington has decided not to lift the pause in assistance to Ethiopia for most programs in the security sector, days after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described acts in Tigray as ethnic (...)
The Ethiopian government is disputing charges of ethnic cleansing in the Tigray conflict, calling allegations by the United States ‘unfounded'.
‘Nothing during or after the end of the main law enforcement operation in Tigray can be identified or (...)
Sudan and Libya have been very much in focus during the past few weeks. Cairo has received senior political figures from both countries, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi visited Khartoum, the new UN envoy on Libya visited Cairo, and security and (...)
Ethiopia's government on Thursday faced mounting pressure to withdraw troops from the northern region of Tigray amid growing reports of war crimes in an embattled area that now faces a humanitarian crisis.
Criticism of the conduct of government (...)
The Ethiopian system is still in an unprecedented state of fragility because tribalism and ethnic quotas rule the country.
The current scene in Addis Ababa is the product of a long history of political crises that have accumulated over the past (...)
