Recent News Headlines : Addis Ababa
GAMBIAA??S DEFEATED LEADER AGREES TO CEDE POWER
BANJUL, Gambia -- Defeated Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has agreed to cede power to the country's newly inaugurated leader, a Senegalese government official confirmed late Friday... READ MORE›
'THE RULE OF FEAR HAS BEEN VANISHED FROM THE GAMBIA FOR GOOD,' PRESIDENT ADAMA BARROW SAYS
A West African regional military force was poised to move against Jammeh if he refused to step down... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 8 SURVIVORS AT ALPINE HOTEL BURIED BY AVALANCHE
Helicopters have been sent to the site, located at 4,000 feet in the Gran Sasso mountains in the Abruzzo region... READ MORE›
AVALANCHE BURIES ITALIAN HOTEL, RESCUERS SAY 'MANY DEAD'
Last Sunday the Hotel Rigopiano had 200 guests, staff included -- yesterday there were between 20 and 30 people, including some kids, Ilario Lacchetta told La Stampa newspaper... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP'S TEAM HAS QUESTIONS ABOUT CHINA IN AFRICA. HERE ARE ANSWERS.
'U.S. model' Africans rank China second as a development model after the United States... READ MORE›
TEXT OF MERYL STREEP'S GOLDEN GLOBES SPEECH THAT HAS EVERYBODY TALKING
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press, just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said... READ MORE›
MERYL STREEP APPLAUDS DIVERSITY, KNOCKS TRUMP AT GOLDEN GLOBES
Meryl Streep has used her Golden Globes acceptance speech to highlight the importance of diversity in Hollywood and to criticise president-elect Donald Trump's propensity for bullying... READ MORE›
REINFORCED IRAQI UNITS RESUME OFFENSIVE TO RETAKE MOSUL FROM ISLAMIC STATE
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi army, police and elite counterterrorism forces launched a combined assault on eastern Mosul after a two-week break, the military announced Thursday... READ MORE›
RECENT PLANE HIJACKINGS AROUND THE WORLD
Two hijackers seized control of a Libyan domestic flight Friday and diverted the Afriqiyah Airways plane to Malta before surrendering. All 118 people aboard left safely... READ MORE›
GHANAIAN PRESIDENT MAHAMA CONCEDES DEFEAT TO OPPOSITION LEADER AFUKO-ADDO
Also, five candidates jostle for the top job at the African Union, going head to head in a live debate in Addis Ababa... READ MORE›
ARMS-FLUSH SOUTH SUDAN FACES 'MASS ATROCITIES' RISK PEACEKEEPERS CAN'T PREVENT
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is warning of a very real risk of mass atrocities in South Sudan and that peacekeepers deployed in the war-torn countr... 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›
AFRICANS SEE CHINA TIES AS A BENEFIT
Two surveys indicated that Africans' view is positive toward the increasing Chinese engagements on the continent... READ MORE›
CHINA AND WORLD BANK UNITE IN THEIR COMMITMENT
We are going to work closely with the World Bank to support the industrialization of Africa, he says... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Addis Ababa
CRISIS DEEPENS IN HAITI IN AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE
Compound in Les Cayes, 299 deaths have been confirmed just in parts of southern Haiti... READ MORE›
DEATH TOLL FROM HURRICANE MATTHEW RISES ABOVE 100 AS HAITI TALLIES DEVASTATION
LES CAYES, Haiti -- The death toll from Hurricane Matthew soared above 100 Thursday as the scope of the devastation in Haiti became clearer, officials said... 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›
KRISTOF WOMEN WITH FISTULAS ARE OUR MODERN-DAY LEPERS
Jamila, 31, another woman treated at Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia, was radiant... 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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
ETHIOPIA LONG MIRED IN POVERTY RIDES AN ECONOMIC BOOM
Ethiopia's economic growth comes as its strategic, geopolitical role remains critical... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA'S OROMO PEOPLE DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS IN PROTESTS
READ MORE Ethiopia accused on bloody crackdown Reporting and recording human rights abuses is also risky, activists told Al Jazeera... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIAS HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SEE SCANT HOPE IN OBAMAS VISIT
As a senator in 2006, Mr. Obama visited the eastern Ethiopian town of Dire Dawa while United States Navy personnel provided aid after flash floods... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS
In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›
OBAMA SAYS MORE POLITICAL OPENNESS WOULD STRENGTHEN ETHIOPIA
The Ethiopian prime minister noted a century of diplomatic ties with the United States but said the U.S... READ MORE›
'AFRICA IS ON THE MOVE!' OBAMA GETS A ROCK STAR REACTION FROM KENYANS
Billing himself as America's first Kenyan-American president Mr Obama targeted his speech at the country's young people and leaders of the future... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA RELEASES JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS AHEAD OF OBAMA VISIT
In Ethiopia, Obama is expected to meet the prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, and address the African Union at its Addis Ababa headquarters... READ MORE›
CHINA RETOOLS ITS MILITARY WITH A FIRST OVERSEAS OUTPOSTIN DJIBOUTI
The outpost, in the East African nation of Djibouti, breaks with Beijing's longstanding policy against emulating the United States in building military facilities abroad... READ MORE›
ROBERT MUGABE FALLS DOWN STEPS IN ZIMBABWE
Mr Mugabe was elected chairman of the 54-nation African Union at a summit of African leaders on Jan 30 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia... READ MORE›
SEVEN PASSENGERS ON INAUGURAL FLIGHT FROM ETHIOPIA CLAIM ASYLUM
Ethiopian Airlines has been operating for over 40 years in Europe and Dublin is its 11th City... READ MORE›
UN DEMANDS URGENT RELEASE OF BRITISH ACTIVIST ON DEATH ROW IN ETHIOPIA OVER TORTURE FEARS
The Foreign Office has pushed for consular access to Andargachew Tsige with no tangible results, since the British citizen was abducted in Ethiopia a year ago... READ MORE›
OBAMA VISIT HIGHLIGHTS ETHIOPIA'S ROLE IN FIGHTING ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
Obama's visit means our country is a safe place to invest and do trade said Dawit Betty 25 a student in Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa... READ MORE›
QUEASY ABOUT FLARE-UPS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA HELENE COOPER CAN RELATE
That meant two things 1 Leaving the nice, calm, tranquil and protected South China Sea for the rough, turbulent, wide-open Philippine Sea, with its monster-sized waves... READ MORE›
OBAMA AND AFRICAN LEADERS TO CONSIDER SANCTIONS IN SOUTH SUDAN'S CIVIL WAR
US president and top officials from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Sudan to consider a??plan Ba?? to address conflict, including possible arms embargo... READ MORE›
DIASPORA ERITREANS PROTEST REGIME HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
Thousands of diaspora Eritreans march in support of UN report that accuses government of crime against humanity... READ MORE›
GUNMEN KILL SCORES IN WESTERN ETHIOPIA OFFICIAL SAYS
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Gunmen have killed more than 140 civilians near Ethiopia's western border with South Sudan, an Ethiopian official said on Saturday... READ MORE›
BARACK OBAMA TOUCHES BONES OF HUMANKIND'S ANCIENT ANCESTOR 'LUCY'
In fact, I just met Lucy, our oldest ancestor, Mr Obama told attendees at the state dinner later in the evening... READ MORE›