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Ethiopian airstrike on a town square in the restive Amhara region kills 26, health official saysAn airstrike on a crowded town square in Ethiopia's Amhara region killed at least 26 people and wounded more than 55 others. The region has...- Fighting resumes in northern Ethiopia after five-month lullThe renewed warfare follows both sides repeatedly blaming the other for a lack of progress towards negotiations to end the brutal 21-month ...
- UN investigator: Contemporary slavery extensive and in ChinaHuman Rights Council Special Rapporteur Tomoya Obokat adds that traditional enslavement, especially of minorities, is found in Mauritania, ...
- Witnesses say more than 200 killed in Ethiopia ethnic attackEthiopia is experiencing widespread ethnic tensions in several regions, most of them over historical grievances and political tensions. The...
- Facebook fails again to detect hate speech in adsFacebook and its parent company Meta flopped once again in a test of how well they could detect obviously violent hate speech in advertisem...
- Calls for ceasefire in Ethiopia grow amid deepening conflictThe US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, arrived in Addis Ababa to press for a halt to military operations and a start...
- Rebel forces in Ethiopia's Tigray launch new offensiveThe fighting -- marked by grisly massacres and widespread sexual violence -- has killed thousands of people, while the United Nations says ...
- United States restricts assistance for Ethiopia over TigrayThousands have been killed and about 2 million people forced from their homes in Tigray after conflict erupted between the Tigray People's ...
- A timeline of Ethiopia's Tigray conflictFighting begins on November 4 2020, with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordering a military response to what he calls a "traitorous" a...
- 'Leave no Tigrayan': In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erasedWhat started as a political dispute in one of Africa's most powerful countries has turned into a campaign against minority Tigrayans. The E...
- Ethiopia risks lengthy stalemate in war-hit Tigray: ReportAbiy declared victory within weeks, but combat has continued recently in central and southern Tigray, conflict-prevention group ICG said in...
- Ethiopia PM says Eritrea to withdraw troops from TigrayFor months both Addis Ababa and Asmara denied Eritrean troops were in Tigray, contradicting accounts from residents, aid workers, diplomats...
- Ethiopia's leader faces intense pressure to end Tigray warCriticism of the conduct of government troops and their allies from neighbouring Eritrea grew after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as...
- Eritrea's murky role in Ethiopia conflictSoldiers from Eritrea, which borders Tigray, have been accused by residents and rights groups of massacres in several locations that figure...
- Ethiopia kills dozens allegedly behind massacre: Officials"The Ethiopia Defence Force has destroyed 42 anti-peace forces who attacked civilians yesterday" in the Metekel zone of Benishangul-Gumuz, ...
- Tigray forces fire rockets into neighbouring region of EthiopiaPrime Minister Abiy Ahmed, last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, unleashed a military campaign in the Tigray region on November 4 with the ...
- Joe Biden team anxious over escalating war in United States ally EthiopiaThe conflict in Tigray region has killed hundreds and possibly thousands, sent 30,000 refugees into Sudan and called into question whether ...
- Tigray says two missile strikes on Ethiopian sites targeted militaryThe airport in Gondar in Amhara state, which neighbours Tigray, was damaged on Friday by what the government called rocket fire. Another ro...
- Two airports near Ethiopia's Tigray state attacked with rockets: GovernmentOne of the rockets hit the airport in Gondar and partially damaged it late on Friday, said Awoke Worku, spokesperson for Gondar central zon...
- Abiy Ahmed's Nobel could mean peace in AfricaThe Nobel Peace Prize for Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed could become a catalyst for peace in the Greater Horn of Africa region
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