Latest articles on Ethiopia

Ethiopia warns Sudan over military build-up amid border tensions

Africa Al Jazeera - 13 Jan 2021

Tensions over longstanding feud over the disputed al-Fashqa region come amid new impasse in three-way dispute over mega-dam

Fact-based journalism is best

Africa Kiri Rupiah & Luke Feltham - 21 Dec 2020

Governments around the world are imitating the work of independent media and repurposing it for propaganda

Debt forgiveness will top the African agenda in 2021

Africa Alex Vines - 19 Dec 2020

After being praised for their handling of the pandemic, African countries must now confront the economic fallout – even as they grapple with existing political and security challenges

Pandemic of human rights abuses haunts governments in East and Southern Africa

Africa Deprose Muchena - 14 Dec 2020

In a year defined by Covid-19, human rights violations, including massacres of civilians and crackdowns on opposition parties, have plagued these regions

A glimpse into the future of government propaganda

Africa Samuel Gebre & Claire Wilmot - 8 Dec 2020

The Ethiopian government has created its own ‘fact-checking’ unit — and it is not the only government to do so.

Carlos on the difference a peace prize makes

Cartoons Carlos - 27 Nov 2020

What a difference a year makes.

It’s not too late to silence the guns in Ethiopia

Africa Open Letter - 17 Nov 2020

An open letter from civil society organisations, from across the African continent calls, for an end to the conflict in Ethiopia

African leaders must continue to press for talks: Ethiopia is too big to fail

Africa Comfort Ero - 17 Nov 2020

The conflict in Ethiopia could spill over into the entire Horn of Africa region. AU and regional leaders need to step up their efforts to de-escalate the situation

Blackout makes it hard to report on Ethiopia’s civil war

Africa Simon Allison - 16 Nov 2020

Between a communications shutdown and tight restrictions on movement, reporters — and the world — knows little about what is going on in Tigray. But the little that is emerging is terrible

Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

Friday Theresa Mallinson - 12 Nov 2020

As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

Ethiopia is about to cross the point of no return

Africa Rashid Abdi & Tobias Hagmann - 10 Nov 2020

As the conflict between the national government and Tigray escalates, the window for intervention is closing fast

Editorial: Cyril must embrace his AU role

Editorial Editorial - 6 Nov 2020

There are several African conflicts that require urgent attention

Abiy Ahmed won a Nobel peace prize. Now Ethiopia is on the brink of civil war

Africa Zecharias Zelalem - 4 Nov 2020

Even as the prime minister was being feted in Oslo last year, the seeds of this conflict were being sown.

Women are entitled to own land

Opinion Hloniphile Simelane - 18 Oct 2020

Too many laws and customs in too many African countries still treat women as minors

Disaster as climate crisis, tectonic shift swell Rift Valley lakes

Africa Caroline Chebet - 25 Sep 2020

The current tectonic cycle squeezes out water from the Earth’s aquifers; the previous cycle caused water to drain out of thelakes into the Earth’s aquifers

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Latest articles on Ethiopia

Ethiopia warns Sudan over military build-up amid border tensions

Fact-based journalism is best

Debt forgiveness will top the African agenda in 2021

Pandemic of human rights abuses haunts governments in East and Southern Africa

A glimpse into the future of government propaganda

Carlos on the difference a peace prize makes

It’s not too late to silence the guns in Ethiopia

African leaders must continue to press for talks: Ethiopia is too big to fail

Blackout makes it hard to report on Ethiopia’s civil war

Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

Ethiopia is about to cross the point of no return

Editorial: Cyril must embrace his AU role

Abiy Ahmed won a Nobel peace prize. Now Ethiopia is on the brink of civil war

Women are entitled to own land

Disaster as climate crisis, tectonic shift swell Rift Valley lakes

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