The UN rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, has urged Ethiopia to let in investigators to conduct a probe in the Tigray region. Bachelet said her office had verified "reports of grave ... Read more »
Joe Biden made his first call as U.S. president to an African leader last week, speaking with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. In November as president-elect, he called South ... Read more »
Every year, it is estimated that tens of thousands of Ethiopians travel illegally to the oil-rich Gulf states in search of better paid work. Since April 2020, more than 15,000 ... Read more »
The U.S. government has issued a statement urging Eritrea and Ethiopia to immediately withdraw their deployed forces from the war-torn Tigray region. This comes days after Amnesty ... Read more »
A war of words has broken out over Eritrea's role in the Ethiopian federal government's assault on its northern Tigray province, in particular on the reported massacre last ... Read more »
Five former ambassadors who led United States representation in Ethiopia for 13 of the past 25 years have issued a call for the U.S. to intensify efforts to address Ethiopia's ... Read more »
Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray state systematically killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the northern city of Axum on November 28 and 29, 2020, opening fire in ... Read more »
Tens of thousands of people are fleeing to Sudan, and Finnish foreign minister Pekka Haavisto warns of a "new refugee drama" in the EU after visiting the Um Rakuba refugee camp in ... Read more »
Human Rights Watch has said that Ethiopian forces carried out indiscriminate shelling of urban areas in the Tigray region in November 2020 in violation of the laws of war. It said ... Read more »
The ministry of foreign affairs says it is deeply concerned by the European Union's statement about the humanitarian situation in Tigray. "These statements not only failed to ... Read more »
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