Local fighters were in control of three towns in Ethiopia's Amhara region on Saturday, residents said, after clashes with the national army prompted the federal government to impose a "state of emergency".The fresh unrest in Africa's second-most popu...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday called for the immediate resumption of food aid to Ethiopia, warning that a decision to suspend assistance comes amid "alarmingly high" rates of malnutrition.The UN's World Food Programme and USAID suspended fo...

A Tigrayan commission of inquiry on Wednesday accused 186 suspects, including authorities and NGOs, of diverting food aid meant for Ethiopia's troubled north.The US government's humanitarian agency (USAID) and the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) anno...

Sudan is one of the largest hosts of refugees in Africa. While South Sudanese constitute the majority, Sudan’s territory hosts many who have been forced by conditions of violence and persecution in neighboring countries to seek refuge, including from...

The Ethiopian government said Thursday it has appointed a senior official in the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) as head of the interim Tigray regional government after a peace deal ended a brutal two-year conflict."Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...

Ethiopia's government on Tuesday accused the United States of taking a "partisan" approach by alleging that its forces, and Eritrean troops, had committed war crimes during the two-year conflict in Tigray."The US statement is inflammatory," the forei...

More than 60 international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have called on the UN Human Rights Council to reject any resolution by the government of Ethiopia to end the mandate of the International C...

Interpol said on Friday, January 6 that it has arrested notorious human trafficker Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam, known for his cruel and violent behavior against migrants, in Sudan thanks to international cooperation.Both Ethiopia and the Netherlands...

An Ethiopian man whose father was murdered during the country's war has joined a lawsuit filed in Kenya against Meta, accusing Facebook's parent company of fanning violence and hate speech in Africa.The case filed in the High Court claims that Meta r...

Even as the rivals in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict have agreed to a ceasefire, reports of air strikes and massacres are emerging in Oromia, a region haunted by a long-running insurgency.Following are the key issues surrounding the violence in Oromia, h...

The Ethiopian government said Friday that 70 percent of the war-stricken northern region of Tigray was now under federal army control and that aid was being sent in -- claims swiftly denied by Tigrayan rebels."70% of Tigray is under ENDF (Ethiopian N...

By AFPEthiopia's government and the rebel authorities in the Tigray region said Wednesday they had signed a deal to cease hostilities after two years of brutal conflict.Here are some of the reactions from around the world:- 'Welcome first step' -Unit...