After months of failed attempts to stop the fighting in Tigray, Washington has announced a new raft of sanctions to be put in pace should the warring parties fail to reach a ceasefire or block humanitarian aid.
The executive order signed by US (...)
In parts of Ethiopia's Tigray region, people now eat only green leaves for days. At a health center last week, a mother and her newborn weighing just 1.7 pounds died from hunger. In every district of the more than 20 where one aid group works, (...)
The White House on Friday threatened to impose sanctions against Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and other leaders involved in a conflict gripping the Tigray region, where 10 months of fighting have left hundreds of thousands of people facing (...)
The United Nations human rights chief on Monday said a highly awaited joint investigation into abuses in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict was unable to deploy to the site of one of its deadliest attacks, the alleged massacre of several hundred people in (...)
It has been 20 years since the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 9/11 and 20 years since the start of the US war on terror. It has been 20 years filled with lessons on how to combat radicalisation and violent extremism. The (...)
As they bring war to other parts of Ethiopia, resurgent Tigray fighters face growing allegations that they are retaliating for the abuses their people suffered back home.
In interviews with The Associated Press, more than a dozen witnesses offered (...)
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited Uganda and Rwanda following regional calls for mediation in order to bring the warring parties in Tigray to the negotiating table. Seeking regional supporters, he had already visited Turkey, South Sudan (...)
The leader of Tigray forces in Ethiopia has expressed the commitment to a ``negotiated end'' to the nine-month war that has killed thousands and left nearly half a million people facing famine, while the United Nations secretary-general on Thursday (...)
The United States on Monday imposed new sanctions over Ethiopia's deadly Tigray conflict as hundreds of thousands of people face famine conditions under a government blockade the U.S. has called a 'siege' and fighting spreads into other parts of the (...)
After Addis Ababa declared a ceasefire in June in the ongoing conflict between the central government in Ethiopia and the Tigray region, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) continued to advance, taking several key towns.
The Ethiopian (...)
Moves to push for peace in Ethiopia followed the World Food Programme warning this week that hundreds of thousands are in danger of famine, now that the agency in Tigray is expected to have run out of food by Friday. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (...)
صرح اليوم الاثنين 1 أغسطس، المتحدث الرسمي باسم جبهة تحرير تيجراي، جيتاشو رضا أن نظام آبي أحمد أوشك علي الانهيار .
قال المتحدث باسم جبهة تحرير تيجراي في عدة تغريدات علي منصة التواصل الاجتماعي "تويتر": إننا نعرف شيئا واحدا على وجه اليقين، لم يتبق سوى (...)
The U.S. official who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide is visiting Ethiopia next week to press the government to lift what the U.S. calls a blockade on humanitarian aid to the conflict-hit Tigray region, where hundreds of thousands of (...)
Thousands of Eritrean refugees are increasingly caught in the middle of the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, where witnesses and U.N. officials say forces have attacked their camps, abducted or killed some of the residents, and stolen their (...)
The US has lauded the Democratic Republic of the Congo's(DRC) leadership of the African Union (AU), emphasising the importance of the organisation's role in mediating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute.
In a telephone call to the (...)
There is a river that has gently flowed for 30 million years, six times older than previously thought.
It could have been just another river, on the face of the earth, like the hundreds of thousands flowing across the globe. No one has really (...)
The Biden administration on Monday renewed genocide allegations against China for repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in its northwest Xinjiang region. It also warned Eritrea, Ethiopia, Myanmar and South Sudan of possible further (...)
Ethiopia's prime minister has promised 'immediate access' for humanitarian groups to Tigray, the United Nations said on Friday, after the United States and the European Union compared the Ethiopian government's current treatment of the embattled (...)
The qualifying matches for the maiden edition of the CAF Women's Champions League kicked-off in Africa's zones. The final competition is to be played in Egypt in October.
West African Football Union (WAFU B) hosted the first zonal draw that would (...)
The capture of the Tigray regional capital by its ousted rulers this week was a dramatic setback for Ethiopia's government, diplomats and analysts say, opening a new chapter in a brutal war but by no means bringing it to an end.
A showdown is (...)
Top U.N. officials warned the Security Council on Friday that more than 400,000 people in Ethiopia's Tigray were now in famine and that there was a risk of more clashes in the region despite a unilateral ceasefire by the federal government.
After (...)
At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Crescent told Reuters on Saturday.
The boat had set off from Zuwara, on Libya's (...)
Soldiers from Eritrea withdrew from three key towns in Ethiopia's Tigray region on Tuesday, a day after Tigray fighters took control of the regional capital from retreating Ethiopian forces and Ethiopia's government declared a unilateral cease-fire. (...)
Since the beginning of the onslaught on Tigray in northern Ethiopia in November of last year, the Ethiopian authorities have alleged that the goal of the offensive is to "eliminate" the combatants of the "outlawed" Tigray People's Liberation Front, (...)
Eritrea now has "effective control" of parts of Ethiopia's Tigray region, a U.N. human rights expert said on Tuesday, calling for troops to withdraw and for a prompt investigation into abuses, including the abduction of refugees.
Mohamed Abdelsalam (...)
