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Ethiopia government in ‘direct engagements’ with Tigray rebels: AU
The Ethiopian government and Tigrayan rebels have had “direct engagements,” the African Union said in a statement made public on Thursday, in the ... World News -
CPJ urges Tigrayan rebels to release five detained journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Tigrayan rebels to immediately release five journalists working for a local broadcaster in war-torn ... World News -
UAE supports WFP in Ethiopia with $60 million in humanitarian aid
The United Arab Emirates provided $60 million in emergency aid to support the United Nations’ World Food Program’s (WFP) humanitarian response in ... Gulf -
Ethiopia: Country holds first Peace Committee meeting
A body charged by the Ethiopian government to look into possible peace negotiations with Tigrayan rebels has held its first meeting, a top aide to ... World News -
Ethiopia’s Abiy says panel formed to negotiate with northern Tigray forces
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Tuesday the federal government had formed a committee to negotiate with the northern Tigray region’s ... World News -
Ethiopia accuses aid agencies of delivering banned equipment to Tigray
Ethiopia called for tighter controls on aid shipments to the country's war-stricken Tigray region as it accused aid agencies of delivering banned ... World News -
Hundreds of aid trucks reach Ethiopia’s war-ravaged Tigray
More than 300 aid trucks arrived in Tigray from May 10-16, the highest number to reach the impoverished and war-torn region of northern Ethiopia in ... World News -
Rights groups accuse Ethiopian regional forces of ethnic cleansing in Tigray
Two leading human rights groups on Wednesday accused armed forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against ... World News -
Ethiopia declares ‘indefinite humanitarian truce’
Ethiopia’s government on Thursday declared “an indefinite humanitarian truce effective immediately,” saying it hoped to help hasten delivery of ... World News -
Ethiopia arrests ex-members of Tigray interim government: Ex-official
Ethiopian police have arrested a dozen officials who worked in the former interim government of the country's war-torn Tigray region, an ex-member of ... World News -
WHO medical supplies reach Tigray but fuel shortage affects aid distribution
The WHO has delivered medical supplies to Ethiopia's troubled Tigray region for the first time since July -- but cannot get the fuel needed to ... World News -
Aid operations in Tigray ‘largely reduced or suspended’: UN
Fuel and cash shortages have forced humanitarian operations to a virtual standstill in Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region, the UN's emergency response ... World News -
Tigray victims file case against Ethiopia at Africa rights body: Lawyers
A legal non-profit on Tuesday filed a complaint against Ethiopia at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, alleging “massive human ... World News -
Nearly 40 percent of people in Ethiopia’s Tigray lack adequate food: WFP
Nearly 40 percent of people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region do not have adequate food after 15 months of conflict, according to an assessment released on ... World News -
Diaspora group: Ethiopia PM open to talks with Tigray forces
Ethiopia’s prime minister has revealed there will be negotiations on a cease-fire between his government and the rival Tigray forces who have been ... World News -
WHO ‘sets aside’ Ethiopia’s request to probe Tedros over Tigray links
The ministry said that Tedros’ remarks compromised the WHO’s credibility and independence. World News -
Ethiopia army planning to ‘eliminate’ rebellious forces in Tigray: Military official
Ethiopia’s military is planning to enter the Tigray regional capital of Mekelle and “eliminate” rebellious forces, a top military official said late ... World News -
Sudan leader Hamdan Daglo makes rare, official visit to Ethiopia amid border tensions
Sudan’s second most powerful leader was heading to Ethiopia on Saturday, a rare visit by an official from Khartoum that comes amid border tensions, ... Middle East -
At least 108 civilians killed this year in Tigray airstrikes: UN
At least 108 civilians have been killed this month in a series of airstrikes in the war-torn northern Tigray region of Ethiopia, the United Nations ... World News -
Ethiopia’s Abiy has ‘special responsibility’ to end Tigray conflict: Nobel panel
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize, said Thursday that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won the honor in 2019, ... World News -
We are witnessing ‘hell’ in Tigray, it’s an ‘insult to humanity’: WHO’s Tedros
WHO’s chief said on Wednesday the blockade on the Tigray region in war ravaged Ethiopia preventing access to deliver food and medicine has created ... World News -
Aid workers say airstrike in Ethiopia’s Tigray kills 17, UN unable to confirm
An air strike in the town of Mai Tsebri in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray on Monday killed at least 17 people, mostly women, and wounded dozens, ... World News -
UN’s Guterres ‘concerned’ over reports of deadly strike in Ethiopia’s Tigray
UN chief Antonio Guterres is “deeply concerned” over reports of a deadly airstrike in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, his spokesman said Monday, in the ... World News -
Ethiopia's rebellious Tigray party accuses Eritrea of attacking its forces
The Tigray People's Liberation Front, the party that controls most of the northern Ethiopia region of Tigray, on Sunday accused Eritrea of attacking ... World News -
Aid agencies suspend work in northwest Tigray after deadly strike: UN
Aid agencies have suspended their work in an area of Ethiopia's Tigray region after a deadly air strike on a camp for people displaced by the brutal ... World News -
Aid workers say Ethiopia air strike in northwest Tigray killed 56 people
An air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray region killed 56 people and injured 30, including children, in a camp for displaced people, two aid workers told ... World News -
Ethiopia pardons several detained TPLF, opposition figures
The Ethiopian government announced Friday it would pardon and release a number of detained political figures, including members of the rebel Tigray ... World News -
US envoy Feltman to visit Ethiopia Thursday, meet with officials
The United States on Saturday cut Ethiopia from access to a duty-free trade program, following through on President Joe Biden’s threat in November to do so over alleged human rights violations in the Tigray region. World News -
Ethiopian army clearing TPLF from two northern regions, says government
Ethiopia’s national armed forces are still in the process of clearing rebellious forces from the northern Tigray region from neighboring Amhara and ... Africa -
Humanitarian flights resume to Ethiopia's Tigray region: UN
UN humanitarian flights and convoys between conflict-hit Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa and Mekele in the Tigray region have resumed, the global ... World News