The two-week exercise will be financed by US while Ethiopia provides venues and platforms for the drills. The contributing countries to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) –...

The African Union (AU) is postponing talks between Sudan’s ruling military council and the Forces of Freedom and Change (FDFC), concerning the so-called “power-sharing agreement,” local media reported yesterday....

Israel has been in chaos since last month, when an Israeli police officer killed a young Ethiopian Jew in Haifa, suspecting that the young man and his companions had...

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday tweeted that the Palestinians’ connection to the Land of Israel is nothing compared to the 4,000 year connection that the Jewish people have...

Sources within Israel’s military-industrial complex (MIC) have denied that Israeli-made air-defence systems have been installed to protect Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, i24news reported on Sunday. The denial follows reports...

Bags of blood donated by Ethiopian Jews were found dumped Israel in 1996; stacks of them. The discovery led to protests and riots in Israel. According to the New...

Sudan’s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups reached an agreement to share power during a transition period leading to elections, setting off street celebrations...

The Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) decided, Wednesday, to engage in direct negotiations with the Transitional Military Council (TMC), at the official invitation of the African-Ethiopian mediation, according...

Israeli protestors of Ethiopian origins, also known as Falasha, gathered on Wednesday to protest against the death of Ethiopian-Israeli teenager, Solomon Teka who was shot by a police officer...

At least 47 police officers were injured and 60 people were arrested following protests across Israel after a police officer shot and killed an unarmed Ethiopian teen

Hundreds of members of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel protested on Monday afternoon in the city of Haifa against the fatal shooting of an unarmed Ethiopian youth by...

Ethiopia’s Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Sea’re Mekonnen was killed in the late hours of Saturday by his own guard, the government confirmed, reports Anadolu Agency. The chief of...

The top US diplomat for Africa on Wednesday joined an international effort to press Sudan’s military rulers and the opposition toward a deal on a transition to democracy two...

The Forces of Freedom and Change leading the protests in Sudan have announced the cessation of civil disobedience as of 3:30 pm Tuesday. A well-informed source said this move...

At least 525 people have been infected with the cholera bacteria in Ethiopia, according to health sources on Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. The Ethiopian Public Health Institute confirmed that...

Migrant domestic workers are seen as less than human in Lebanon, the director of a new film that exposes widespread abuse of such women said ahead of a screening...

Two Sudanese rebel leaders were arrested early on Saturday, opposition sources said, shortly after meeting visiting Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who is trying to mediate in a crisis...

TV Channel Extra News reported that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will visit Sudan to mediate between the National Transitional Council and the Forces of Freedom and Change. On...

The African Union said on Thursday it had suspended Sudan until a civilian government was formed, intensifying international pressure on the country’s new military rulers to give up power, Reuters reports....

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Israel Police announced on Tuesday “that it had closed the case against a policeman who shot and killed a mentally disturbed young Ethiopian man in January”, reported Haaretz. The...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on Tuesday for the release of more than 3,000 migrants, mainly Ethiopians, who it said remain held in inhumane conditions in two...

Yemeni authorities have rounded up about 3,000 irregular migrants, predominantly Ethiopians, in the south of the country, “creating an acute humanitarian situation,” the UN migration agency said on Friday,...

Saudi Arabia has no immediate plans to allow Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to operate in the kingdom, its transport minister said on Monday, as state airline fly deal potentially...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed yesterday discussed plans to form a joint force to protect the shared border between the two countries. The two...

The leaders of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan agreed yesterday on the need to support technical talks on Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam. According to a statement by the Egyptian presidency, this...

About 2,000 Israelis, mostly those of Ethiopian origins, took to the streets of Tel Aviv yesterday to protest against the killing of an Ethiopian youth by the Israeli police...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his Sudanese counterpart Omar Al-Bashir yesterday stressed the importance of reaching an agreement on Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam as soon as possible. Al-Sisi said...

Saudi Arabia has released the Saudi-Ethiopian businessman Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi following more than 14 months of detention in a nation-wide crackdown on corruption, official Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) reported yesterday....

A new Ethiopian-Israeli party has announced it will run in the upcoming general election, calling for an end to racism and promoting equal rights for Israel’s immigrants. The party...

Israel has been able to conjure up strong allies since it was founded in 1948. Britain and France supported it militarily, politically and economically until it launched the Six...

The last seven days in the Middle East...