The Latest Breaking News from Ethiopia

NGO denounces the detention and torture of Eritrean refugees in Egypt

More than 3,000 Eritrean refugees have been detained in Egypt this year and some have reported sexual violence and torture, a human rights NGO said Monday.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 24

Ethiopia's Tigray region is caught between past conflict and fears of another

Ethiopia's Tigray region is bracing for the possibility of renewed conflict over three years after warring parties signed a peace deal

The Independent UK · Feb 23

Widening rift between Eritrea and Ethiopia sparks fear of new conflict

Ethiopia and Eritrea say they are preparing for the possibility of war, with landlocked Ethiopia's claim it needs access to the Red Sea seen as a provocation by Eritrea. As tensions build, violence is escalating on their shared border in the Tigray region.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 22

Could we have 13 million new tiles please? The astonishing £42m rebirth of modernist masterpiece Africa Hall

Hailed as one of the defining achievements of African architecture, the historic, recently refurbished Ethiopian landmark has now won the World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism prize

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16

Ghana seeks formal UN acknowledgement of African slave trade injustice

Ghana will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly in March to designate the African slave trade as "the most serious crime against humanity," Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama announced on Sunday during the African Union Summit in Ethiopia.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 16

How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world

The Tigray region in Ethiopia’s north has endured one of the world’s deadliest armed conflicts of the 21st century. Between 2020 and 2022, as many as 800,000 people were killed (out of a regional population of about 7 million). This rivals estimates from recent major conflicts, including those in Ukraine,…

The Conversation · Feb 12

Ethiopia demands Eritrea 'immediately withdraw' troops from its territory

Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters walk in lines towards another field in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 30, 2021.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 8

Ethiopia's prime minister accuses Eritrea of mass killings during Tigray war

Ethiopian prime minister has accused Eritrea of mass killings while fighting alongside government troops against regional forces in the war in the troubled northern region of Tigray that ended in 2022

The Independent UK · Feb 3

World leaders urge restraint as clashes in western Tigray resume

The fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which resumed last week, has prompted concern from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, as well as from the African Union, the European Union and the UK, all of whom have called on the parties to exercise restraint.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 2

'Executions, torture, abductions, rape': Ethiopia’s hidden conflict

Ethiopia’s Oromia is the country’s biggest state, with 35% of the population and home to the capital, Addis Ababa

The Independent UK · Feb 2