December 29, 2022
Ethiopia: African Union Monitoring Team Visits Ethiopia's Tigray to Oversee Cease-Fire
East African and African Union officials arrived in the Tigray region of Ethiopia to launch a joint monitoring and verification mechanism for a peace deal signed in November to end… Read more »
December 28, 2022
Ethiopia: Journalist Hopes Coverage On Ethiopia's Tigray Will Bring Justice
Lucy Kassa never expected to be a war correspondent. Working for a Norwegian magazine, the freelance journalist wrote about issues related to development and the economy in… Read more »
December 27, 2022
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Airlines to Resume Daily Flights to Tigray
Ethiopia's flagship carrier Ethiopian Airlines has announced it will resume daily flights to Tigray region's capital Mekelle as an African Union-brokered peace deal moves forward. Read more »
December 23, 2022
Ethiopia: Ethiopia, Tigray Rebels Agree to African Union Monitoring Team
Kenya's former president, Uhuru Kenyatta, will travel to Ethiopia's Tigray region to oversee monitoring of last month's peace deal. Ethiopian federal and Tigray region officials… Read more »
December 26, 2022
Ethiopia: Ethiopia Federal Govt Officials in First Post-War Visit to Tigray
Ethiopian officials have for the first time in nearly two years arrived in Tigray's capital Mekelle to join in overseeing implementation of a November peace deal. Read more »
December 19, 2022
Ethiopia: Ethiopians Voice Hopes and Fears About Peace Process
As Ethiopians around the world anxiously watch to see if a fragile peace agreement will hold, a group of people from the diaspora gathered at VOA headquarters in Washington for a… Read more »
December 09, 2022
Ethiopia: Critical Aid Arrives in Conflict-Ridden Northern Ethiopia As Cease-Fire Holds
The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, reports it is stepping up critical aid to thousands of refugees and internally displaced people in conflict-ridden northern Ethiopia. Read more »
December 07, 2022
Ethiopia: State-Owned Electric Company Says Tigray's Capital Mekelle Reconnected
Ethiopia's electric company says it has reconnected the Tigray region's capital, Mekelle, to the national grid for the first time in more than a year. Read more »
December 05, 2022
Ethiopia: Report - Guards Massacred 83 Tigrayan Prisoners At Camp in Southern Ethiopia
A published report says Ethiopian guards and villagers massacred 83 Tigrayan prisoners at a camp in southern Ethiopia last November in what the report calls the deadliest killing… Read more »
December 01, 2022
Ethiopia: Guterres Visits Ethiopia, Praises Ceasefire
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised Ethiopia's Tigray cease-fire during his first visit to the country since the war broke out two years ago. He said the U.N. is… Read more »
November 25, 2022
Ethiopia: Amnesty International Calls On Ethiopia to Prioritize Justice for Sexual Violence Victims and Survivors
Human rights group Amnesty International has called on the African Union to pressure the Ethiopian government to ensure justice for victims of sexual violence in the two-year war… Read more »
November 17, 2022
Ethiopia: Govt Prepares to Host UN Internet Forum Amid Tigray Blackout
Ethiopia is set to host the U.N.'s annual Internet Governance Forum later this month, despite an ongoing communications blackout in its war-damaged Tigray region. The… Read more »
November 16, 2022
Ethiopia: More Aid Reaches Tigray Following Cease-Fire
More international aid is arriving in Ethiopia's Tigray region, ending a months-long blockade after the warring sides agreed to a ceasefire. Read more »
November 05, 2022
Ethiopia: UN Hopeful Rights Abuses Will Cease With Tigray-Ethiopian Truce
The U.N. Human Rights Committee welcomes the truce between the Ethiopian government and Tigray People's Liberation Front, saying it should improve the human rights situation in… Read more »
November 04, 2022
Ethiopia: Aid Groups Ready to Deliver Aid to Tigray After Ceasefire
Aid groups say they are ready to deliver much-needed food and medicine to Ethiopia's northern Tigray region after the warring sides agreed to a cease-fire Wednesday. Read more »
Ethiopia: Rights Group Calls Ethiopian, Tigrayan Truce a 'Crucial Opportunity'
Human Rights Watch said Friday that a truce reached by Ethiopia and Tigrayan authorities earlier in the week "provides a crucial opportunity for immediate and rigorous… Read more »
November 03, 2022
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Government, Tigrayan Forces Agree to End Fighting
November 4 marks two years since war broke out in Ethiopia's Tigray region between Tigrayan forces and the federal government and its regional allies, including neighboring… Read more »
Africa: Ethiopia Peace Deal Hailed As First Step to End Africa's Deadliest Conflict
World leaders are reacting with cautious optimism after the announcement of a peace deal and a cease-fire between warring parties in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region. Read more »
October 28, 2022
Ethiopia: UN Rights Experts Warn Atrocities Will Grow in Ethiopia's Tigray Without Peace
A commission of independent U.N. experts examining rights violations and atrocities in the war in Ethiopia's Tigray region says that without an end to the fighting, the risk of… Read more »
October 25, 2022
South Africa: Ethiopia-Tigray Peace Talks Underway in South Africa
South Africa's presidential spokesman said Tuesday that the first round of peace talks on Ethiopia's Tigray region have begun. Few other details have been released, and so far… Read more »
October 21, 2022
Ethiopia: African Union Peace and Security Council Meets On Tigray War
The African Union's Peace and Security Council is meeting Friday to discuss the escalating war in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region. Read more »
October 20, 2022
Africa: Malawi Police Exhume 25 Bodies of Ethiopians in Mass Grave
Police in northern Malawi are investigating the deaths of 25 male foreigners, believed to be Ethiopians, found buried in a mass grave in a forest in the Mzimba district. Read more »
October 18, 2022
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Forces Seize Three Towns in Northern Tigray
Ethiopian government forces and their allies have captured the city of Shire and two more towns in the Tigray region in an offensive that aims to take control of airports and… Read more »
Ethiopia: UN Rights Chief - Fighting in Tigray Taking Toll On Civilians
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, says the escalating hostilities in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region are taking a devastating toll on the civilian… Read more »
October 07, 2022
Africa: AU Peace Talks On Ethiopia's Tigray Postponed
Diplomats say African Union-sponsored peace talks planned for this weekend between Ethiopia's federal government and Tigrayan rebels have been delayed due to logistical problems. Read more »