Tag: Ethiopia

Morocco flirts with Ethiopia amid stalled Nile dam talks (Khalid Hassan, Al Monitor)

Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita is pictured during a press briefing in Rabat on Aug. 11, 2021. - FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images Speaking at the United...

Ethiopia: Decision to expel UN staff could put aid operations at risk (UN News)

© UNICEF/Mulugeta Ayene. A one-year-old boy is treated for malnutrition at a health centre in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. Engagement between the UN and...

Condemning Ethiopia’s Plans to Expel UN Officials (US Department of State)

The United States strongly condemns the Government of Ethiopia’s stated plans to expel seven United Nations officials and calls for an immediate reversal of...

Ethiopia: 7 UN officials told to leave country within 72 hours (UN News)

Secretary-General António Guterres voiced his shock on Thursday after the Ethiopian Government declared seven UN staff persona non grata, ordering them to leave the...

Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis ‘stain on our conscience’: UN (Al Jazeera)

The crisis in Ethiopia that is pushing the war-scarred Tigray region towards starvation is a “stain on our conscience”, the United Nations humanitarian chief...

The Italian G20 Presidency welcomes the 1st meeting of the Creditor Committee for Ethiopia under the Common Framework for Debt Treatments beyond the DSSI...

On Thursday 16 September, a Creditor Committee co-chaired by France and China was established to address the issue of Ethiopia’s debt sustainability. G20 and...

Issuance of New Executive Order Establishing Sanctions Related to the Crisis in Ethiopia (US Department of State)

In the midst of ongoing violence, abuses against civilians, and growing humanitarian plight in Ethiopia, President Biden today signed an Executive Order (E.O.) establishing...

Ethiopia. UN chief says ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ unfolding in Ethiopia (Al Jazeera)

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned the Security Council the conflict in Ethiopia has spread beyond the Tigray region and “a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before...

Ethiopia. More than 210 killed in violence in western Ethiopia: Commission (Al Jazeera)

More than 210 people have been killed across several days of ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s tense Oromia region last week, the Ethiopian Human Rights...

Ethiopia. UN Chief: No Military Solution to Ethiopia Crisis (VoA)

Margaret Besheer The U.N. secretary-general said Thursday that there is "no military solution" to Ethiopia's 10-month-old conflict, and he urged the parties to stop fighting...

USA/Ethiopia/Eritrean Defense Forces. US sanctions Eritrean general over rights abuses in Ethiopia (Al Jazeera)

Radmilla Suleymanova The United States Department of the Treasury on Monday sanctioned an Eritrean official it accused of engaging in serious human rights abuses committed...

Ethiopia/Sudan. Caught in the crossfire, Ethiopian minority flees to Sudan (Al Jazeera)

Dragged into a conflict not of their making, members of Ethiopia’s Qemant ethnic group say their only choice was fleeing to Sudan – marking...

Ethiopia – Ethnic Tigrayans Forcibly Disappeared (HRW)

Ethiopian authorities since late June 2021 have arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, and committed other abuses against ethnic Tigrayans in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The authorities...

Ethiopia/Tigray/USA – US envoy heads to Ethiopia to urge end to fighting (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations says 400,000 people are at risk of famine because of the continuing conflict US President Joe Biden is sending his special...

Ethiopia/Tigray – Ethiopia armed group says it has alliance with Tigray forces (Al Jazeera)

The leader of an armed group that Ethiopia’s government designates a terrorist organisation says his group has struck a military alliance with the Tigray...

Tigray – Amnesty: Rape survivors describe slavery, mutilations in Tigray (Al Jazeera)

Women walk in front of a burned truck on the road near Dansa, southwest of Mekelle in Tigray region, Ethiopia Ethiopian and Eritrean troops...