Ethiopia has returned to Kenya 37 elephant tusks seized from smugglers who were trying to export them illegally to the Far East, Kenyan wildlife authorities said on Wednesday. The tusks, weighing 145kg, were intercepted while in transit through Ethiopia in April, the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) said in a statement.
Ermias Woldeamlack’s brothers were all killed during Ethiopia’s infamous red terror. Their bodies, like thousands of others, have never been found. Little attention is now paid to that chapter of Ethiopian history. The ongoing trials of the alleged perpetrators, now in their 10th year, solicit little interest. But that is about to change.
The Ethiopian government faced fresh calls from human rights organisations on Friday to abolish the death penalty. The Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) appealed to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to bring an end to executions in the country.
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Ethiopian officials have blamed the rebel Oromo Liberation Front for a bomb that ripped through a train car, killing two people and injured nine others. A government spokesperson said the terror attack had all the hallmarks of the rebel group fighting for greater autonomy for the Oromo people.
Landslides due to torrential rain have killed 11 people, seriously injured eight and destroyed 102 homes in a remote rural area in southern Ethiopia.
Tens of thousands of lives are at risk because of a lack of drugs needed to fight a malaria epidemic threatening Ethiopia, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.
A British paedophile exposed by the Guardian for abusing orphans of the Ethiopian famine was yesterday jailed for nine years with hard labour by a court in Addis Ababa after an apparent attempt to open another centre for children in Zambia.
Ethiopian Olympic gold medallists are to help spearhead the country’s fight against poverty, the country’s national athletics coach announced on Wednesday.
Families displaced during the Ethiopia-Eritrea war are still not returning home because of the danger of landmines and the impending demarcation of the border.
Ethiopia has bought 60 Russian-made tanks from Yemen at a cost of over -million dollars, a privately-owned weekly newspaper reported on Wednesday.