Addis Abeba — Olusegun Obasanjo, the High Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, is scheduled to provide a briefing to the media today in the afternoon in Pretoria, according to the South African government department of international relations and cooperation. Representatives of the federal government and Tigray regional state are the two […]
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Addis Ababa — A new report by the UN said that at least nine people have died following the latest cholera outbreak across five districts in Oromia and Somali regional state, with over 330 cases reported as of 31 October. A new report by UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says 9 deaths […]
Addis Abeba — Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said that the federal government is “trying to convince [the] TPLF to respect the law of the land, to respect the constitution, to act as one state in Ethiopia.” Speaking to CGTN, PM Abiy said that peace was a “foundation for prosperity,” and that his government is “working […]
Addis Abeba — A new report by UNICEF says since fighting resumed in late August in Northern Ethiopia, approximately 574,000 people have been additionally displaced in conflict affected Afar, Amhara, and Tigray regions. According to the report the total number of people in need of humanitarian assistance throughout Ethiopia stands at 29.7 million out of […]
The organisers have been maintaining almost complete radio silence about the talks, making it very difficult to assess progress. The Ethiopian peace talks in South Africa — which had been widely expected to end on Sunday — will continue into Monday, sources said. “They’re not going to conclude tonight,” one observer said on Sunday evening. […]
The World Health Organization warned that hospitals are running dangerously low on medical supplies, as fighting between federal and Tigrayan forces intensify following a lull in the conflict between March and August. Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is running dangerously low on medical supplies like vaccines and antibiotics, officials from the World Health Organization said Friday. […]
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 further atrocity crimes is growing. “Atrocity crimes are imminent unless there is a cessation of hostilities,” commission member Radhika Coomaraswamy told reporters Friday at the United […]
Addis Abeba — The 2022 World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index, which was released on 25 October, revealed that Ethiopia’s overall rule of law score has decreased 3.6% in this year’s Index. Ethiopia ranks 123rd out of 140 countries worldwide, falling one position since last year. Significant trends for Ethiopia included “a deterioration […]
Addis Abeba — The Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s (SNNP) regional state Police Commission has announced that a member of the South Omo Zone Police suspected of trafficking 48 Eritrean nationals, including children, to Kenya has been detained. Deputy Commander Taju Negash, the head of the media department of the SNNP Police Commission, told a […]
Addis Abeba — A new data released by the UN said that at least 185,200 people (37,040 households) were internally displaced and an additional 79,631 people (15,927 households) were affected by flooding that occurred across 12 Woredas as well as in the capital city of the Gambella regional state following heavy rains from early August […]
Addis Abeba — In the backdrop of the AU-led pace talks that is expected to take place in South Africa between the representatives of the federal government and the Tigray regional state authorities, a bipartisan group of the U.S. Senate wrote a letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pleading with his government and all parties […]
Tigray rebels and the Ethiopian government have announced their arrival in South Africa for peace talks. It is the most serious effort to date to find a solution to the devastating conflict. Tigray rebels and Ethiopian government negotiators are to hold African Union-supported peace talks in South Africa Monday aimed at solving the catastrophic two […]
Addis Abeba — The pace talk delegation composed of officials from Tigray regional state arrived in South Africa ahead of today’s AU-led peace talk between Tigray and federal government officials. Earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with Kenya’s President, William Ruto, and “commended his critical role in regional peace and security in Ethiopia […]
Tigrayan rebels say their negotiators have arrived in South Africa for African Union-led peace talks with Ethiopia’s government. The discussions are aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the country’s two-year war. The negotiations are scheduled to start on Monday. Kindeya Gebrehiwot, a spokesman for the rebel authorities in Tigray, announced the delegation’s arrival in […]
Addis Ababa — Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, Demeke Mekonnen has urged the Ethiopian diaspora to make history once more by uniting and putting their country first in order to protect its sovereignty, considering the increasing pressures on Ethiopia. Demeke has also thanked Ethiopians in the Diaspora for their support […]
Addis Ababa — Residents of the Amhara region staged a demonstration condemning foreign interference under the motto “I Stand for Ethiopia, Raise my Voice.” Residents of the towns of Bahir Dar, Gondar, Desie, Kombolcha, Debre Markos, Debre Birhan, Seqota and others are on the streets starting early this morning. The demonstrators are denouncing interference of […]
African Union-brokered peace talks between the warring parties in Ethiopia are to be held in South Africa on Monday to seek a cease-fire and avert a humanitarian catastrophe in what is now the bloodiest conflict in the world. Ethiopian and Eritrean government forces, backed by ethnic militias, have made major gains in recent weeks in […]
Egypt still eyes legally binding agreement An excerpt from the joint statement issued by the European Union (EU) and Egypt during their ninth Association Council meeting held in Luxembourg in June of last year reveals the EU’s position on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). EU and Egypt applauded the United Nations Security Council Presidential […]