Tag: Ethiopia

Ethiopia says prime minister has arrived on front lines to take charge of troops (Olafimihan Oshin, The Hill)

Ethiopia’s government said its prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has arrived on the front lines to take charge of troops amid the ongoing conflict with Tigray...

Ethiopia’s PM has gone to the battlefront: State-affiliated media (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has gone to the front lines to lead his troops in the battle against forces from the northern Tigray...

Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed vows to lead army ‘from the battlefront’ (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said he will lead his country’s army “from the battlefront” starting on Tuesday, a dramatic...

Briefing with Senior State Department Officials On the Situation in Ethiopia and Ongoing Efforts to Encourage the Departure of U.S. Citizens (US Department of...

SPECIAL BRIEFING OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON VIA TELECONFERENCE MODERATOR:  Thank you, Operator.  First of all, I’d like to thank everyone for joining us this afternoon for this...

Thousands detained in Ethiopia crackdown, rights body says (Al Jazeera)

Thousands of people have been detained in Ethiopia’s capital and elsewhere since the government earlier this month declared a state of emergency over the...

Ethiopia conflict threat to wider regional security: Blinken (Joseph Stepansky, Al Jazeera)

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Wednesday that the worsening conflict in Ethiopia risks “peace and stability” in the wider Horn...

Ethiopia’s Tigray is under a ‘systematic’ blockade: WHO chief (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region is under “systematic blockade”, the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general has said, warning that people were starving to death and...

US sanctions Eritrean army, ruling party over Ethiopia conflict (Al Jazeera)

The United States has sanctioned the Eritrean military and the country’s ruling party for “contributing to the crisis and conflict” in Ethiopia, which has...

How to address the sexual violence epidemic in Ethiopia? (Ndeye Sow, Al Jazeera)

Earlier this month, a joint report by the United Nations and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) exposed how Ethiopia’s brutal and rapidly expanding war...

Who can resolve Ethiopia’s conflict? (Al Jazeera)

International diplomatic efforts are under way to try to end the fighting in Ethiopia. Envoys from African countries and the United States have held meetings...

The potential of industries without smokestacks to address unemployment: An Ethiopia case study (Tsegay Gebrekidan Tekleselassie, Brookings)

The study investigates the potential of Industries without Smokestacks (IWOSS) to create jobs in Ethiopia and focuses on agro-processing (particularly food and beverage), horticulture,...

Tigray rebels raped women in Ethiopia’s Amhara region: Amnesty (Al Jazeera)

Tigrayan rebels raped, robbed and beat up several women during an attack on a town in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, Amnesty International has found, amid...

Risk of Ethiopia descending into civil war ‘only too real’: UN (Al Jazeera)

UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo has said the risk of Ethiopia “descending into widening civil war is only too real”, adding that the political...

Visit of Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Feltman to Ethiopia and Kenya (US Department of State)

Special Envoy Jeffrey Feltman is currently in Ethiopia to underscore the United States’ grave concern with the escalation of the conflict and the risk...

Ethiopian government rallies protesters against Tigrayan rebels (Al Jazeera)

Tens of thousands of Ethiopians have pledged to defend the capital from advancing rebels during a pro-military rally where attendees dismissed diplomatic efforts to...

Ethiopia’s Abiy urges ‘sacrifices’ as US orders staff out (Al Jazeera)

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has told Ethiopians they must be ready to make “sacrifices” to save the country from rebel forces, as the United...