Ethiopia

Vantage | Why Ethiopia-Somaliland Red Sea port deal is bad news for Africa

It is an opportunistic move, as Ethiopia has long wanted access to the sea, and its Prime Minister recently called it an existential question

Somalia’s cabinet calls emergency meet on Ethiopia, Somaliland port deal

Notwithstanding its 1991 declaration of independence from Somalia, Somaliland has not attained general international recognition. Somaliland is a part of Somalia

Ethiopia: Former minister arrest over alleged links to rebel group

Taye Dendea is accused by federal police in a statement made on Tuesday of being a member of the Oromo Liberation Army, a group that is prohibited as a terrorist organisation, and of "collaborating with anti-peace forces that are trying to destroy Ethiopia"

From Torkham to Gaza: Unravelling challenges of global refugee dynamics

The Global North needs to take responsibility through financial reparations for their complicity in creating the global refugee crisis

Vantage | Is Ethiopia's Nobel laureate president stoking another war?

While there is merit in the economic arguments put forth by Abiy Ahmed, the pursuit of port access, especially through the threat of force, raises significant concerns

At least 183 killed in clashes in Ethiopia's Amhara region

In April the Ethiopian government announced it was dismantling regional forces across the country triggering tensions with Amhara nationalists believe it would weaken their region

Eritrea, Ethiopia deny US accusations of war crimes in Tigray conflict

Ethiopia's foreign affairs ministry called the US claims "inflammatory" and "untimely", while Eritrea's foreign affairs ministry said they were "unsubstantiated and defamatory"

Ethiopia rejects US war crime allegations as 'inflammatory'

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who last week made his first visit to Ethiopia since a breakthrough November 2022 peace deal between the federal government and Tigrayan rebels, on Monday made a forceful call for accountability on his return to Washington

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to meet Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy in bid to renew ties

Blinken is the highest-ranking US official to visit Africa's second most populous nation since war broke out in late 2020 between Ethiopia's government and Tigrayan rebels, fraying US relations with its longtime ally as Washington alleged crimes against humanity

Antony Blinken to press for Ethiopia peace progress on top US visit since war

Blinken will arrive Wednesday for talks in Addis Ababa with the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who transformed from a close US ally to near-pariah over the two-year war in the Tigray region that has left more people dead than the Russian invasion of Ukraine