Tag: Ethiopia

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...

Ethiopia’s Tigray Defense Forces Advance Toward Addis Ababa (Michael Horton, The Jamestown Foundation)

Ethiopia’s Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) are carrying out yet another successful counter-offensive against the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and its allies. The current...

Security Council ‘deeply concerned’ by expanding clashes in northern Ethiopia (UN News)

The Members of the United Nations Security Council expressed “deep concern” about the expansion and intensification of military clashes in northern Ethiopia. Security Council ‘deeply concerned’ by expanding clashes in northern Ethiopia  |...

Nine anti-Abiy groups team up as Ethiopia recalls ex-soldiers (Al Jazeera)

Nine Ethiopian opposition factions have signed an agreement in the United States to form an alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose government called...

The Urgent Need to End the Conflict in Ethiopia (US Department of State)

As the conflict in Ethiopia marks a full year, Ethiopian leaders – both inside and outside government and from across the country – face...

US envoy to visit Ethiopia in effort to de-escalate ‘dire’ civil conflict (Joseph Choi, The Hill)

A U.S. special envoy will travel to Ethiopia this week as concerns about the violence in the eastern African country's Tigray region grow. Jeffrey Feltman, the U.S....

Facebook deletes Ethiopia PM’s post that urged citizens to ‘bury’ rebels (BBC News)

Facebook has removed a post from Ethiopia's prime minister for violating its policies against inciting violence. On Sunday, Abiy Ahmed called on citizens take up...

A year into war, fate of Tigrayan federal forces still a mystery (Al Jazeera)

Simon*, a 24-year-old ethnic Tigrayan resident of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, feels particularly uneasy on the first anniversary of the brutal war that has...

Ethiopia’s escalating conflict and allegations of war crimes (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia’s yearlong war has been marked by “extreme brutality” from all sides involved, according to the United Nations human rights chief. A joint investigation by...

End war now before it’s too late for Ethiopians, UN rights chief urges fighters (UN News)

All parties involved in the escalating conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray must stop fighting immediately, or else risk pushing the region’s catastrophic humanitarian situation “over...

Ethiopia’s war marked by ‘extreme brutality’ from all sides: UN (Al Jazeera)

A UN joint investigation into alleged atrocities in Ethiopia found all sides committed grave abuses that may amount to crimes against humanity and war...

US suspends duty-free access to Ethiopia over human rights abuses (Samuel Gebre and Fasika Tadesse, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

The U.S. suspended duty-free access to Ethiopian exports because of a yearlong civil war that’s spawned a humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa...

Ethiopia asks residents to prepare to defend capital (Al Jazeera)

Authorities in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa have called on residents to prepare to defend their neighbourhoods after rebel forces from Tigray region, who...

Ethiopia accused of limiting rare UN probe on Tigray abuses (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia has tried to limit a UN human rights investigation into atrocities committed in the blockaded Tigray region, people with knowledge of the probe...