Ethiopia

NAIROBI — Ethiopia said on Jan. 13 its military had killed three members of the Tigray region's former ruling party, including former Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin. The three Tigray ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Wednesday it has received information that over 80 civilians were killed ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—The leader of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region has confirmed firing missiles at neighboring Eritrea’s capital and is ...

ADDIS ABABA—Two airports in Ethiopia's Amhara state which neighbors Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Survivors of a massacre by rebels in western Ethiopia on Sunday counted 54 bodies in a ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Ethiopians in the capital are celebrating progress in the construction of the country’s dam on the ...

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JOHANNESBURG—New satellite imagery shows the reservoir behind Ethiopia’s disputed hydroelectric dam beginning to fill, but an analyst says ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—At least 239 people have been killed and 3,500 arrested in more than a week of ...

ADDIS ABABA—At least 50 people were killed in Ethiopia's Oromiya region in protests following the fatal shooting of ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Ethiopia on Saturday said it is set to begin filling a $4.6 billion hydroelectric dam on ...

CAIRO—Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia on June 14 said talks would continue later this week to resolve their dispute ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—A new report by the rights group Amnesty International accuses Ethiopia’s security forces of extrajudicial killings ...

Beijing suddenly canceled most of the international flights into China beginning on March 29, causing many overseas Chinese ...

Thirteen Canadians who work with an Alberta-based humanitarian organization are among 15 people detained in Ethiopia, the charity ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Ethiopia's reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and other officials on Feb. ...

ADDIS ABABA—Ethiopian lawmakers on Feb. 13 approved a controversial law aimed to curb hate speech and disinformation, especially ...

STOCKHOLM—The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize says his horrifying experiences as a young Ethiopian soldier fueled ...

HAWASSA, Ethiopia—Awol Beyene got married on Nov. 17 in a white tuxedo, with his voting card in one ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—The opening of Ethiopia's once-secretive imperial palace complex has been hailed as symbolizing a new era ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—The death toll in Ethiopia from protests in October has risen to 86, according to Prime ...

ADDIS ABABA—Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister warned Oct. 22 that if there's a need to go to ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 11 for his peacemaking efforts ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Amid fears that Beijing is taking control of various sectors of Africa’s economy, civil society organizations ...

ADDIS ABABA—Ethiopia held a memorial on June 25 for the army chief of staff slain with four other ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—The Ethiopian army general accused of leading a failed coup in a restive northern region was ...

Ethiopia's army chief of staff and the regional president of the northern state of Amhara were killed in ...