Tag: Ethiopia

What would a full-blown conflict mean for Ethiopia’s future? (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia’s year-long conflict in the north is threatening to descend into a widening civil war. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced this week he will lead the battle...

Can Ethiopia avert deepening turmoil and prioritise peace? (Ahmed Soliman, Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia’s devastating civil war recently entered into its second year. The conflict between the federal government and the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) has metastasised...

Ethiopia: Humanitarian aid needed as situation deteriorates in Tigray (UN News)

With the dire humanitarian situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, continuing to deteriorate, it is critical to establish a regular flow of humanitarian aid into the region, the Deputy Spokesman for the...

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...