A video of a man being burned alive should shock the world into action to end the 15-month civil war in which acts of cruelty take place on all sides
Miners of rare metals will score but the soaring oil price will result in various cost-of-living increases
African leaders are taking the initiative in developing strategies for coping with it, including its effect on the continent’s water security and sanitation
Fact checkers, journalists, civil society organisations and human rights activists say Facebook’s support is inadequate. The company has known for years that it helps to fuel tensions in the country.
Ethiopia’s prime minister now feels secure enough to venture out of the country, dropping in on friends, allies and patrons
Three consecutive rainy seasons have failed as the region has recorded its driest conditions since 1981
Africa is again becoming the stage for the proxy wars of foreign powers
The ICRC said the urgently-needed supplies and essential drugs, which were flown in, would be distributed to facilities across Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray
Festivities were stained with signs of the war’s toll: Gondar’s hospitals teemed with wounded combatants, while families like Arega’s confronted the absence of the deceased.
Conflict hotspots, most in the Sahel region, will continue to dominate the news this year, while a number of countries will hold key elections.
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The move marks a major reversal by the rebels, who previously dismissed the government’s insistence on their withdrawal from Afar and Amhara as “an absolute non-starter” for talks to begin.
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Some 29% of children are acutely malnourished, up from 9% before the war
With 20% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population and its largest economy, Nigeria is critical for any continent-wide strategy and successive US administrations have courted Nigerian leaders since the restoration of civilian rule in 1999.
Last week, South Africa’s biggest cell phone operator announced two major acquisitions amid speculation its rivals may be teaming up
A United Nations spokesperson said the latest detentions had occurred in the capital of Afar province, on the only functional road leading into famine-threatened Tigray.
Far from Ethiopia war front, mass arrests ensnare fearful Tigrayans
Michelle Bachelet insisted on the need to bring perpetrators of a vast array of rights abuses to justice
The famine that was feared has come to pass, and aid just isn’t getting in
Untreated effluent from textile factories in in Lesotho, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius and Madagascar pours into rivers, contaminating the water
Last month Sudan recalled its ambassador to Ethiopia, saying Addis Ababa had spurned its efforts to broker a ceasefire in the Tigray conflict.
Retributive justice merely leads to generational cycles of violence. And the civilians continue to be subjected to rape, torture, death and illegal detentions
The US treasury accuses the defence force of massacres, looting, rape and torture in Tigray
The well-being of about 3.2-billion people, 40% of the world’s population, has been harmed
The vote is likely to inflame existing tensions in the country
Whistleblowers say the VOA’s coverage of the civil war in Ethiopia is slanted in favour of Abiy Ahmed’s government
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops into Tigray in early November to disarm and detain leaders of the regional ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front