(Article by Augustine Passilly, originally published in French daily La Croix, 31 December 2025) The rendezvous was due to take place near an Orthodox monastery perched on a hill south of Gondar, one of the main towns in Ethiopia’s northern…
Following Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as an independent state, questions were raised during the first session of Ethiopia’s House of People’s Representatives regarding the status of the memorandum of understanding that Ethiopia signed with the self-declared republic. However, neither Foreign…
Following Israel’s recognition of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation, Eritrea said the move “warrants an unequivocal response at the level of the UN Security Council and its members”. In a statement, Eritrea’s Ministry of Information said…
When the Fascist troops of Benito Mussolini invaded Ethiopia and Emperor Haile Selassie was forced into exile in May 1936, what were the experiences of both young and adult people in the capital, Addis Ababa, and in other towns across the…
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said his government arrested TikTok content creators in order to reprimand them. He said the government had a duty to protect not only the country but also its people from cyber terrorists and attacks,…
(AFP)-A few months ago, farmer Belete Melke was sheltering from a heavy downpour in a remote village in Ethiopia’s Amhara region when suddenly gunfire erupted around him. “We were caught in the crossfire,” he told AFP, after being struck by…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed earlier this week to contribute troops to the fledgling International Security Force for Gaza, two Western diplomats familiar with the situation tell The Times of Israel. US President…
(La Tribune de Genève) Tesfu, who identifies as Eritrean, is 51 years old. He fled Ethiopia at the age of 16, before Eritrea gained independence, and has lived in Geneva without a residence permit for the past 35 years. Since…
An uneasy calm has settled over Gambela after two days of clashes triggered by the assassination of the city’s police chief, with residents reporting gunfire in several neighbourhoods and widespread disruption to daily life, Ethiopia Insider reported. The Gambella City…
Ninety-eight people who had been detained without trial for several years in Eritrea have been released from prisons, relatives of the former detainees have told BBC Tigrigna. According to the BBC, citing sources in Asmara and abroad, 36 detainees were…