Ethiopia

Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, yesterday called on Sudan and Ethiopia to engage in dialogue, exercise restraint and refrain from military escalation in the Al-Fashqa...

Ethiopia seeks peace with Sudan, and our "two brotherly countries," Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, announced yesterday, warning of parties who want the two countries to lead the countries to...

Sudan said, Wednesday, that it exercises self-restraint amid tension with Ethiopia over the killing of seven Sudanese soldiers, Reuters reports. "The government's duty is to defend its territory and...

The head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council of Sudan, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan insisted yesterday that the response to the killing of eight Sudanese citizens in Ethiopia will be a...

Saudi Arabia has lifted the direct and indirect travel suspension for Saudi citizens to Ethiopia, Turkiye, Vietnam, and India, the Ministry of Interior announced on Monday. The Ministry said...

Over 100 million people have been driven from their homes around the world, according to new data released by the UNHCR, making it the highest number on record. The...

Ethiopia warned on Friday that Sudan's invasion of its soil would cause "unprecedented" clashes, accusing Khartoum of working to change the demography of the disputed area, Anadolu Agency reported....

Some 59.1 million people were internally displaced in 2021, up from 55 million a year earlier, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said today. "The situation today is phenomenally worse...

Some 193 million people experienced "acute food insecurity" last year, a joint report by the EU and UN said on Wednesday, calling it a record figure and warning that...

The Omani Foreign Ministry yesterday said it had facilitated the release of 14 foreigners who were held by the Houthi group in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa, and...

The resignation of US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield after less than six months in the role and at a time of persistent political turmoil...

Libyan security forces freed 195 people of different nationalities, including 23 women and two children, who had been kidnapped by a gang for ransom, Anadolu news agency reported. A statement issued...

The Ethiopian government on Friday said that some 21 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are on their way to Tigray, the northernmost regional state affected by 16 months of...

European Union antitrust regulators, on Friday, scrapped their investigation into Qatar Energy after evidence they collected did not confirm their initial concerns, Reuters reported. "Today's closure decision is based...

The Sudanese General Intelligence Service (GIS) has rescued 18 Ethiopians held by a human trafficking group in eastern Sudan's Gadaref State, Anadolu News Agency reported. "The national intelligence service...

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its third week, and the number of Ukrainian immigrants has increased under the strain of war, Israel is witnessing sharp differences between one group...

Israel's Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata raised the issue of ethnic discrimination with her colleagues, describing them as "hypocrites" regarding Israel's discriminatory treatment of refugees from Ukraine with...

Pollution and climate change are devastating Egyptian fisheries, according to a two-part investigative series published by Climate Tracker. Fish are harder to find in the Shata and Al-Qabouti regions...

Turkiye's women diplomats have played an important role in building political, economic and cultural relations with African countries in the last 20 years, Anadolu News Agency reports. Turkiye has...

Egypt has submitted an urgent request to the African Union to call it to hold a negotiation session between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia, following the official announcement by Addis...

Algeria, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa last week announced the formation of Group of Four Nations (G4) aiming to deal with various issues confronting Africa. Leaders of the four nations, who met on the sidelines of the 6th...

Ethiopia wants to cooperate with Egypt and Sudan regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced yesterday. Ahmed told parliament that Addis Ababa must not...

Ethiopia began producing electricity on Sunday from its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a multi-billion-dollar hydropower plant on the River Nile that neighbours Sudan and Egypt have worried will...

African Heads of States and governments meeting at the African Union's Summit (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 5 February decided to revoke Israel's observer status to the continental...

Ethiopian lawmakers, on Tuesday, voted to lift the country's state of emergency, Anadolu News Agency reports. The motion in parliament faced stiff resistance, but sailed through with majority vote....

Ethiopian Foreign Minister, Redwan Hussein, yesterday stressed that Ethiopians would not wait "indefinitely and they expect the green light to use their country's resources",in reference to operating its dam project....

A migrant domestic worker has taken her former employer to court in Lebanon alleging slavery and slave trading. The lawsuit, which was brought to court by the London-based non-profit...

Millions are being forced out of their homes in Somalia in search of food and water as a result of the severe drought facing the country, Save the Children has...

Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray has been hit by severe hunger, a food security assessment report from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday, and Anadolu News...

Egypt, on Tuesday, expressed interest in resuming negotiations with Ethiopia to reach an agreement on a major dam project being built by Addis Ababa on the Blue Nile, a...

The Ethiopian authorities demanded that both Egypt and Sudan change their rhetoric regarding the Renaissance Dam and to raise the tone of peace-building. This came in a statement by...

Egypt's foreign minister said yesterday that his country is always ready to resume negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, if the government in Addis Ababa has the political...