NEW YORK: A conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region could trigger broader destablization in the country, U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock told the Security Council on Wednesday as he warned that …
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In its latest situation update issued on Sunday, the FAO disclosed dry weather conditions across the Horn of Africa region is expected to facilitate desert locust swarms in large parts …
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DAKAR, Senegal — The arrest of a cameraman working for the news agency Reuters in the Ethiopian capital last week shows how press freedom has eroded in a country now …
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In rare, personal comments, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke Monday of his “personal pain” over the “worsening” conflict raging in his home country of Ethiopia. “In addition …
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As tensions rose between Mr. Abiy and the T.P.L.F., Mr. Isaias saw an opportunity to settle old scores and to reassert himself in the region, said Martin Plaut, author of …
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Ethiopia will hold its parliamentary election on June 5 next year, the National Electoral Board said Friday, after polls scheduled for August 2020 were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. …
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More than 100 people have been killed in the latest massacre along ethnic lines in western Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Wednesday, and the toll is expected to …
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ADDIS ABABA/KHARTOUM: Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok arrived in Ethiopia on Sunday with what a senior Sudanese government source said was an offer to mediate in the conflict in its …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — On a bright day in mid-November, about a dozen police officers with machine guns barged into the home of Lisanewerk Desta, a theologian who is the …
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By: Deutsche Welle | December 2, 2020 5:37:06 pm Fighting between Ethiopian troops and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is estimated to have killed thousands of people, sent some …
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The camps will have now run out of food supplies — making hunger and malnutrition a real danger, a warning we have been issuing since the conflict began nearly a …
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ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI: The Ethiopian government launched a manhunt on Sunday for leaders of a rebellious faction in the northern region of Tigray after announcing federal troops had taken over the …
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Ethiopian armed forces are “fully in control” of the city of Mekele after a Saturday offensive against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), according to a statement by the country’s …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia claimed victory in its conflict with the restive region of Tigray on Saturday, after a daylong series of artillery strikes against the regional capital, a …
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Written by Neha Banka | Kolkata | Updated: November 26, 2020 6:00:09 pm Ethiopia: Federal troops have been fighting with forces from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the region’s …
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“The last peaceful gate which had remained open for the TPLF clique to walk through have now been firmly closed,” the statement read, referring to the region’s ruling party, the …
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By: Reuters | Addis Ababa, Nairobi | November 25, 2020 4:12:30 pm Debretsion Gebremichael, Tigray Regional President, attends the funeral ceremony of Ethiopia’s Army Chief of Staff Seare Mekonnen in …
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By: Deutsche Welle | Updated: November 24, 2020 9:36:27 pm A humanitarian worker from UNHCR documents Ethiopian refugees. (Source: DW) The UN Security Council is due to hold informal talks …
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“We are not concerned about timing, we are concerned about our final complete success,” said the president of the Tigray region, Debretsion Gebremichael, on Tigray TV Monday night. On Sunday, …
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ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave Tigrayan regional forces 72 hours to surrender before the military begins an offensive on the regional capital of Mekelle. “We urge you …
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By: Deutsche Welle | Updated: November 21, 2020 8:03:57 pm For two weeks, federal troops have been fighting with forces from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the region’s ruling …
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Abiy’s government has said it will soon reach Mekelle after taking various surrounding towns The Ethiopian government said on Saturday its forces had seized another town in their advance on …
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NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia denied on Saturday that talks on the growing conflict in its northern Tigray region were imminent, just hours after three African former presidents were named to help …
