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ETHIOPIA SEEKS RETURN OF LOOTED TREASURES FROM LONDON MUSEUM
In 2007, Addis Ababa launched a formal restitution claim to have the treasures returned back to Ethiopia... READ MORE›
ASSAULT ON PEACEKEEPER BASE IN SOMALIA
Islamist militants have launched a gun and bomb attack on an African Union AU peacekeeper base in Somalia... READ MORE›
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAB ATTACKS AFRICAN UNION BASE
Heavily armed al-Shabab fighters have attacked an African Union base southwest of the Somali capital, Mogadishu... READ MORE›
CHINA FLOODS AFRICA WITH NEEDED DOLLARS, STOKING U.S. CONCERN
And African nations realize that China's investments don't come with the same nagging about human rights and good governance that often accompanies U.S. assistance... READ MORE›
AFRICAN UNION CHIEF SAYS TILLERSON VISIT MAKES UP FOR TRUMP'S DEROGATORY REMARKS
Tillerson is on a five-nation tour that began in Ethi-o-pia with a visit to the African Union... READ MORE›
REX TILLERSON SEEN AFRICA-BOUND WITH 'NO DELIVERABLES' BUT A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO FOR TRUMP
As far as Africa's concerned, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the Trump administration have some explaining to do. President Donald Trump's descriptio... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA RULING COALITION TO NOMINATE NEW PRIME MINISTER
Former ambassador Shinn said making sure everyone benefits from Ethiopia's boom would go a long way toward defusing protests... READ MORE›
U.S. STEPS INTO ETHIOPIA'S POLITICAL CRISIS AS REX TILLERSON HEADS TO ADDIS ABABA
Addis ababa, cairo and brazzaville among top cities to visit in 2018... READ MORE›
AKON IN ETHIOPIA TO MARK 122ND ANNIVERSARY OF BATTLE OF ADWA
The global music icon, however, arrived at the Bole International Airport in the capital Addis Ababa aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane... READ MORE›
E. AFRICA SEEKS $78 BILLION TO FUND INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
South Sudan is the newest member of the regional bloc that includes Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi... READ MORE›
CANADIANS CALL FOR RETURN OF RELATIVE HELD IN ETHIOPIA
Bashir Makhtal is not an Ethiopian, he is imprisoned due to the terrorist crimes he committed, Tadesse said... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA PRIME MINISTER HAILEMARIAM DESALEGN RESIGNS
Hailemariam Desalegn says he has submitted his resignation as both Ethiopia's prime minister and chairman of the ruling coalition... READ MORE›
NAMIBIA BANS FOREIGN TRAVEL FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
The ban will be in place until at least February, the country's presidency said in a statement on Wednesday... READ MORE›
BEIJING ACCUSED OF BUGGING AFRICAN UNION HQ FOR YEARS
Kwang said they were another example of the West's belief that China was pulling strings in Africa... READ MORE›
CHINA DENIES BUGGING AFRICAN UNION HEADQUARTERS IN ETHIOPIA
The African Union headquarters, in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, was built by the Chinese... READ MORE›
AFRICAN LEADERS DISMISS CHINA'S "SPYING" ON AU
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Monday rejected a French media report that alleged China was spying on the African Union AU headquarters in Addis Ababa... READ MORE›
CHINA DENIES REPORT IT HACKED AFRICAN UNION HEADQUARTERS
Chinese and African officials gathered in Addis Ababa for the bloc's annual summit both denied Le Monde's report... READ MORE›
EGYPT, ETHIOPIA AND SUDAN HOPE TO BREAK NILE DAM TALKS DEADLOCK IN ONE
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have agreed to finish the initial technical study within one month, the Egyptian state news agency said, citing the foreign minister... READ MORE›
TRUMP DOESN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT 'SHITHOLE COUNTRIES' AT DAVOS
It really truly is a great honor, Trump told Kagame, noting his role with the African Union... READ MORE›
AFRICA STILL IN UPROAR OVER 'SHOCKING' TRUMP SLUR AHEAD OF HIS DAVOS MEETING WITH RWANDAN LEADER
Africa's leaders cannot stay silent after President Donald Trump's vulgar remarks about African countries and Haiti, the chairman of the African Union Comm... READ MORE›
MEETINGS, DEALS AND NETWORKING; THE AFRICAN AGENDA AT DAVOS 2018
The IMF director also met with South Africa's Deputy President, Cyril Rampahosa, Guinea's president Alpha Conde and Angola's president Joao Lourenco... READ MORE›
AFRICAN UNION TO TRUMP: WE'RE STILL MAD ABOUT THAT COMMENT
As African leaders prepare to meet, no one has forgotten President Trump's comment about their continent... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIAN POLICE KILL FIVE AT FESTIVAL
Anti-government demonstrators in Ethiopia have been calling for political and economic reforms and an end to state corruption and human rights abuses... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA REFUSES WORLD BANK ARBITRATION OVER NILE RIVER DAM
Ethiopia maintains that the dam's construction will not reduce Egypt's share of the river's water... READ MORE›
AFRICAN DIPLOMATS INVITE TRUMP TO A.U. MEETING TO EXPLAIN 'SHITHOLE' REMARK
The diplomats said that South African U.N... READ MORE›
TRUMP COMMENTS INFURIATING AFRICANS MAY SET BACK US INTERESTS
Mr. Brigety said that Mr. Trump's remarks were on the agenda for the annual African Union summit meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this month... READ MORE›
AFRICAN UNION DEMANDS DONALD TRUMP APOLOGISE FOR 'SH**HOLE' COMMENTS
African Union demands Donald Trump apologise for shhole comments... READ MORE›
AFRICA STARTLED BY TRUMP'S SUDDEN AND VULGAR ATTENTION
JOHANNESBURG AP -- Africans were shocked on Friday to find President Donald Trump had finally taken an interest in their continent... READ MORE›
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DEATH TOLL SOARS TO 72 IN ADDIS ABABA GARBAGE LANDSLIDE
The collapse late on Saturday destroyed 49 makeshift homes inside the landfill site on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, city spokesman Amare Mekonen said... READ MORE›
POP STAR TEDDY AFRO SUPPRESSED IN ETHIOPIA
The world loves Ethiopian pop star Teddy Afro. His own government doesn't... READ MORE›
JOYOUS AFRICANS TAKE TO THE RAILS WITH CHINAS HELP
He predicted that the new train would transform Djibouti and Ethiopia, and eventually all of Africa... READ MORE›
CHINA BUILDS WORLD'S FIRST OFFSHORE FISH FARM
Desalegn also formally signed Ethiopia's membership to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank AIIB, making the Horn of Africa nation the 77th member... READ MORE›
OBAMA SAYS I COULD WIN 3RD TERM AS PRESIDENT
Nobody should be president for life Mr. Obama declared in a speech at the African Union the continent's umbrella organization... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA IS FACING A KILLER DROUGHT. BUT IT'S GOING ALMOST UNNOTICED.
The United Nations World Food Program WFP, which is working in Ethiopia's drought-hit Somali region, has started cutting its food rations to 80 percent... READ MORE›
HOW ETHIOPIA BECAME A LAND OF PRYING EYES
Mr. Alene is a government official, whose job includes elements of both informant and enforcer... READ MORE›
ADDIS ABABA: DEATH TOLL HITS 113 IN RUBBISH LANDSLIDE
Koshe is the largest rubbish dump in Ethiopia and home to hundreds of people who collect and resell rubbish trucked in from around Addis Ababa... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA BLAMES 'FOREIGN ENEMIES' FOR STOKING UNREST
Demonstrations started among the Oromo, Ethiopia's biggest ethnic group, and later spread to the Amhara, the second-most populous one... READ MORE›
DOZENS KILLED IN ETHNIC CLASHES IN ETHIOPIA'S OROMIA
Ethiopian government says it has launched an investigation into the violence in Hawi Gudina and Daro Lebu districts... READ MORE›
CHAD'S MOUSSA FAKI MAHAMAT NAMED AU COMMISSION CHAIR
After seven rounds of voting, the Chadian foreign affairs minister defeated favourites Amina Mohamed of Kenya and Senegal's Abdoulaye Bathily... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | ETHIOPIA'S CANDIDATE FOR THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DOESN'T LIKE MENTIONING A CERTAIN DISEASE
Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is a candidate for director general of the World Health Organization... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA TARGETS ACTIVISTS WITH ISRAELI SPYWARE
More oversight on commercial spyware is needed, says author of new report on how Ethiopia allegedly spies on dissidents... READ MORE›
FOR OBAMA PERSONAL AND PRESIDENTIAL INTERSECT IN KENYA
Two advocacy groups, Haki Africa and Muslims for Human Rights, or Muhuri, were placed on a list of entities suspected of ties to the Shabab... READ MORE›
GARBAGE DUMP LANDSLIDE LEAVES AT LEAST 46 DEAD IN ETHIOPIA
In the long run, we will conduct a resettling program to relocate people who live in and around the landfill, the Addis Ababa mayor said... READ MORE›
AU TROOPS KILLED IN AL-SHABAB ATTACK
Somalia african union troops killed in al-shabab attack... READ MORE›
OBAMA IN ETHIOPIA PLANS TO ADDRESS SOUTH SUDAN CONFLICT
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia For President Obama the birth of South Sudan four years ago was the capstone of his Africa policy... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA HAS A LOT RIDING ON ITS NEW, CHINESE-BUILT RAILROAD TO THE SEA
ADDIS ABABA, Ethi-o-pia -- The sleek, white train glides through the hilly Ethiopian countryside, the first to travel this route in nearly a decade... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICA HIGH COURT SAYS ALLOWING BASHIR TO LEAVE VIOLATED CONSTITUTION
Bashir, who had been in South Africa to attend an African Union meeting with other African leaders, was already halfway to Khartoum, Sudan's capital... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA STATE OF EMERGENCY ARRESTS TOP 11,000
Authorities have arrested more than 11,000 people since Ethiopia declared a state of emergency early last month amid violent protests... READ MORE›
A YEAR AFTER OBAMA'S VISIT, ETHIOPIA IS IN TURMOIL
As a booming Addis Ababa expanded and Ethiopia brought in foreign investors, more and more land from the surrounding Oromia region was confiscated... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA TO PARDON POLITICAL PRISONERS, SHUT PRISON
Hailemariam Desalegn says Ethiopia plans to pardon political prisoners and close a notorious prison in Addis Ababa... READ MORE›
OBAMA CALLS ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED
The recent election in Ethiopia was anything but a democratic one, said Sarah Margon, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
DOZENS STILL MISSING AS SOMALIA TRUCK BOMBING DEATH TOLL SURPASSES 300
Africa's deadliest Islamic extremist group, al-Shabaab has waged war in Somalia for more than a decade, often targeting high-profile areas of the capital... READ MORE›
46 KILLED DOZENS MISSING IN ETHIOPIA GARBAGE DUMP LANDSLIDE
The landfill has been a dumping ground for Addis Ababa's garbage for more than 50 years... READ MORE›
OBAMA ON CHINAS TURF PRESENTS US AS A BETTER PARTNER FOR AFRICA
China has far outpaced the United States in economic interaction with Africa since Mr. Obama took office... READ MORE›
AFRICA SETS UP $28.5M CRISIS FUND
Of the West African countries hit by the 11-month outbreak, Liberia has seen the most deaths... READ MORE›
OBAMA TO PRESS AFRICAN LEADERS ON RIGHTS AND CORRUPTION
President Obama said the US would continue to co-operate with Kenya and other East African nations to counter the threats from Islamist extremists groups... READ MORE›
LANDSLIDE AT ETHIOPIAN GARBAGE DUMP KILLS AT LEAST 35
It was not immediately clear what caused the landslide at the Koshe Garbage Landfill, which buried several makeshift homes and concrete buildings... READ MORE›
BURKINA FASO ARMY TOLD TO HAND OVER POWER
Col Zida told diplomats and journalists in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, that the military had no plan to usurp power... READ MORE›