The United States says all soldiers from Eritrea should leave Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region ``immediately.''
A State Department spokesperson in an email to The Associated Press late Tuesday cited ``credible reports of looting, sexual violence, (...)
The Eritrean soldiers' pockets clinked with stolen jewelry. Warily, Zenebu watched them try on dresses and other clothing looted from homes in a town in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region.
``They were focused on trying to take everything of value,'' (...)
A high-level delegation from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), has visited on Tuesday Egypt's Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) project located to explore investment opportunities there.
The AfCFTA delegation, led by its Secretary (...)
Khartoum and Addis Ababa traded placatory remarks in the last few days, following escalating tension over the border city of Fashqa. Backed by a mobilised public, each side maintained its version of a historical narrative including their (...)
The European Union has suspended budget support for Ethiopia worth 88 million euros ($107 million) until humanitarian agencies are granted access to people in need of aid in the northern Tigray region.
In a blog post published on Friday, the EU's (...)
Tensions are rising between Sudan and Ethiopia on the back of the failure of the last round of tripartite negotiations – with Egypt – over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). An unresolved border dispute between Khartoum and Addis Ababa has (...)
The United Nations fears “massive community transmission” of COVID-19 in Ethiopia's troubled Tigray region, fueled by displacement and the collapse of health services, as humanitarian workers finally begin to access the region two months after (...)
A senior Ethiopian general said in a video clip posted on social media this week that Eritrean troops had entered the country uninvited while his soldiers were battling a rebellious force in the northern region of Tigray.
The video, whose (...)
A Spanish-flagged humanitarian ship on Sunday was seeking a port of safety for 265 migrants its crew rescued from the Mediterranean Sea in the last few days.
The Open Arms charity tweeted that its vessel on Saturday had safely brought aboard 96 (...)
African countries began officially trading under a new continent-wide free trade area on Friday, after months of delays caused by the global coronavirus pandemic.
But experts view the New Year's Day launch as largely symbolic with full (...)
ذكرت "العربية عاجل" عبر "تويتر"، نقلا عن مصادر، الثلاثاء 29 ديسمبر، أن القوات السودانية عززت وحداتها البرية والجوية على حدود إثيوبيا استعدادا لهجوم وشيك.
وأضافت "العربية": حشود عسكرية إثيوبية على الحدود، في ظل تجدد النزاعات الحدودية بين (...)
Media rights groups are protesting the Ethiopian government's arrest of journalists, saying it indicates the erosion of press freedom in the country.
Kumerra Gemechu, a video journalist for the Reuters news agency, was arrested on Dec. 24 at his (...)
In the first half of the last decade the army backed the people in two grassroots revolutions, and in the second performed a complementary role to civilian bodies in fostering economic recovery, development, and growth. The army performed these (...)
To the dismay of Cairo, 2020 brought an end to four years of good chemistry-driven rapport between the Egyptian regime and the US administration. Indeed, US President Donald Trump's failure to secure re-election is one of the most annoying political (...)
Following the collapse of civilian and military dictatorships across Africa three decades ago, the continent adopted a shift towards democracy. Many African countries formed multi-party political systems and drafted constitutions that limited (...)
Regardless of the repercussions of the ongoing conflict between Ethiopia's federal government and the Tigray region, this year has left critical marks on Ethiopia's modern history, not only because it has been full of major events, but also because (...)
Ethiopia's government said on Friday it was returning Eritrean refugees to camps in the northern Tigray region, a move that the United Nations refugee agency said was "absolutely unacceptable".
The refugees are being taken from the capital Addis (...)
Ethiopia's security forces shot at and detained United Nations staffers as they tried to reach part of the embattled Tigray region, a senior official said Tuesday, and he blamed the U.N. staffers for trying to reach areas where ``they were not (...)
The implementation of a mammoth African free trade agreement will begin on January 1, an official in the African Union (AU) announced on Monday.
"One of the key outcomes of the African Union's virtual 13th Extraordinary Summit in South Africa is the (...)
Ethiopia said it had captured or killed most commanders of a rebellious northern force, while Tigray's fugitive local leader countered on Friday that civilians were protesting against looting by occupying soldiers.
Neither side gave proof for their (...)
Ethiopia and the United Nations agreed on Wednesday to channel desperately-needed humanitarian aid to the northern region of Tigray, where a month of war is believed to have killed thousands of combatants and civilians.
Federal troops have been (...)
Sudan's Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas stressed on Wednesday that his country's great benefits from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) cannot be achieved without signing a binding legal agreement, a statement by the Sudanese ministry (...)
The fugitive leader of Ethiopia's defiant Tigray region on Monday called on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to ``stop the madness'' and withdraw troops from the region as he asserted that fighting continues ``on every front'' two days after Abiy declared (...)
Ethiopia's nearly month-long war against rebellious northern forces may be transforming into a guerrilla conflict, experts said on Tuesday, even though federal troops declared victory after capturing the Tigrayan regional capital at the (...)
Although the Ethiopian government announced that federal troops had taken over the capital of the northern region of Tigray, and that military operations were complete, regional diplomats and experts have warned that a military victory might not end (...)
