African Unions envoys meeting Friday with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali ended with no apparent progess towards averting an attack on Mekelle, capital of the northern Tigray region. ... Read more »
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has repeated an ultimatum to Tigray forces to step down or face heavy fire from federal forces outside the region's capital Mekelle. Abiy has given them ... Read more »
The Desert Locust crisis that struck the greater Horn of Africa region earlier in 2020, could re-escalate, as recent strong winds carried small mature yellow swarmlets from ... Read more »
The Ethiopian government has reportedly rejected a mediation offer from the African Union, with officials in Addis Ababa falling short of calling the office of the continental ... Read more »
Global health experts are concerned that Ethiopia's accusation that Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is taking sides in the sudden outbreak of war will cloud his credibility as ... Read more »
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has tasked his envoys to push against possible regional intervention in the Tigray conflict, reports The Nation. This as the UN refugee agency ... Read more »
Human Rights Watch says there are credible reports of increasing casualties and has called on the authorities on both sides to facilitate access for humanitarian groups, stop ... Read more »
Human rights organisation Amnesty International is reporting that scores - possibly hundreds - of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) in ... Read more »
Calling the situation in the troubled Tigray region an internal matter, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed resisted pressure from the African Union and international community to ... Read more »
Ethiopia's transition to multi-party democracy has been in danger for months, but the eruption of conflict in the northern region of Tigray threatens a humanitarian disaster that ... Read more »
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