Ethiopia

Kuwait has executed seven people convicted of murder, in what are the first executions conducted in the country in the last five years. According to media reports, four Kuwaitis,...

Call logs released by France have revealed that French and British authorities ignored calls for help several times when a boat carrying asylum seekers ran into difficulty whilst crossing...

Ethiopia's government, on Friday, announced that its forces now control 70 per cent of the country's northern Tigray regions in the wake of a peace deal, Anadolu News Agency...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed yesterday arrived in Egypt to attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27). Ahmed's visit comes amid an Egypt-Ethiopia-Sudan dispute over Addis...

Peace talks between Ethiopia's government and Tigray rebels on Wednesday bore fruits as the two warring sides agreed to a new cease-fire deal, a diplomatic breakthrough two years into...

Peace talks between Ethiopia's government and Tigray rebels to end a devastating conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region began Tuesday in South Africa, according to a presidency spokesman, Anadolu...

Tribal tensions over land in the Blue Nile province along the Ethiopian and South Sudan borders violently escalated according to the health ministry 

The moment that Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was ousted by his former military colleague, Captain Ibrahim Traore, pro-coup crowds filled the streets. Some burned French flags; others carried Russian...

UN humanitarian workers, who had been trapped in Ethiopia's Tigray region due to the ongoing conflict, have safely exited the region, a top UN official said, Anadolu News Agency...

The leaders of Ethiopia and Somalia, on Wednesday, signalled the neighbours will lay greater focus on economic ties in the coming future, Anadolu News Agency reports. Prime Minister, Abiy...

Ethiopia's Tigray rebels have said they are willing to halt fighting and take part in peace talks led by the African Union (AU), Anadolu News Agency reports. "We are...

Algeria's ability to unite the Arab world is being questioned as talk revolves around the possible postponement of the Arab Summit scheduled to be held in Algiers in November,...

Ethiopia said on Thursday that no "parallel" effort would be pursued for talks with Tigray rebels other than the mediation by the African Union with former Nigerian President Olusegun...

An Egyptian meeting, Chaired by the Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Mohamed Abdel Aty, discussed on Monday the Nile flood scenarios and the continuation of raising the degree...

The Al-Shabaab terrorist group stormed several towns in south-western Somalia along the border with Ethiopia, a security official confirmed on Thursday, fearing heavy losses in the ensuing clashes with...

Somalia's presidential spokesman said on Tuesday that reports of Somali troops trained in Eritrea being involved in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict are nothing but "rumours". Abdikarin Ali Kaar, who held...

Selamawit Teklay, a famous beauty queen in Tigray, experienced "a harrowing ordeal" during her journey across the English Channel to seek asylum in the UK, she recounted. Selamawit travelled...

Sixty years after Nelson Mandela was trained in guerilla warfare in Ethiopia, a former military officer who acted as his security guard said there had been an attempt to...

Austria supports Egypt's right to its share of the Nile River waters, the Austrian Foreign Minister, Alexander Schallenberg, announced yesterday. "The flow of the Nile waters is not a...

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...