Hailemariam Desalegn says Ethiopia plans to pardon political prisoners and close a notorious prison in Addis Ababa... READ MORE›
Ethiopia maintains that the Grand Renaissance Dam's construction will not reduce Egypt's share of the river... READ MORE›
Egypt wants World Bank to help on Ethiopia dam impasse... READ MORE›
Ethiopia says the Grand Renaissance Dam, which it hopes will help make it Africa's largest power exporter, will have no major effect on Egypt... READ MORE›
The National Bank of Ethiopia NBE has initiated processes to better regulate foreign exchange transactions and by that weaken the black market... READ MORE›
Ethiopian government says it has launched an investigation into the violence in Hawi Gudina and Daro Lebu districts... READ MORE›
More oversight on commercial spyware is needed, says author of new report on how Ethiopia allegedly spies on dissidents... READ MORE›
Spokesperson Negeri Lenco says 98 people were arrested in the Oromia region and five arrested in the Somali region... READ MORE›
Mr. Alene is a government official, whose job includes elements of both informant and enforcer... READ MORE›
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›
Dr Jiang, traumatised after witnessing seeing Chinese soldiers shoot fellow unarmed protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, was re-arrested in 1995 before fleeing China in 2003... READ MORE›
The world loves Ethiopian pop star Teddy Afro. His own government doesn't... READ MORE›
He predicted that the new train would transform Djibouti and Ethiopia, and eventually all of Africa... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day... READ MORE›
Muslims and refugees are being scapegoated and alienated as attacks claimed by ISIL rise, Human Rights Watch says... READ MORE›
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›
Demonstrations started among the Oromo, Ethiopia's biggest ethnic group, and later spread to the Amhara, the second-most populous one... READ MORE›
Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is a candidate for director general of the World Health Organization... READ MORE›
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›
Mr. Liu said in the telephone interview that he was not afraid of possible retaliation from the police over the drawings... READ MORE›
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›
Saudi Arabia has executed the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the interior ministry said... READ MORE›
Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
Exclusive UK Government urged to reveal its role in getting Saudi Arabia onto UN Human Rights Council... READ MORE›
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia For President Obama the birth of South Sudan four years ago was the capstone of his Africa policy... READ MORE›
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›
Authorities have arrested more than 11,000 people since Ethiopia declared a state of emergency early last month amid violent protests... READ MORE›
Adam Coogle, a Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch, said Instead of beheading Ashraf Fayadh, a Saudi court has ordered a lengthy imprisonment and flogging... READ MORE›
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›
The recent election in Ethiopia was anything but a democratic one, said Sarah Margon, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
An innocent young teenage boy has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia and we will not stand by and watch they warned... READ MORE›
The landfill has been a dumping ground for Addis Ababa's garbage for more than 50 years... READ MORE›
China has far outpaced the United States in economic interaction with Africa since Mr. Obama took office... READ MORE›
It was not immediately clear what caused the landslide at the Koshe Garbage Landfill, which buried several makeshift homes and concrete buildings... READ MORE›
Col Zida told diplomats and journalists in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, that the military had no plan to usurp power... READ MORE›
Mastura signed a local regulation officially recognizing human rights abuse victims in the city... READ MORE›
Ethiopia's economic growth comes as its strategic, geopolitical role remains critical... READ MORE›
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