Ethiopia will continue with the construction of its Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River despite protest from Egypt.
Zambia defended their Afcon crown in frustrating fashion with a 1-1 draw against an Ethiopia side whose goalkeeper was red-carded.
Lesotho claims an Ethiopian is smuggling illegal immigrants into South Africa – but he denies it.
Two Swedish journalists freed from a 14-month jail sentence in Ethiopia are resting in a secret location, relatives said.
African leaders joined other foreign dignitaries in paying homage to Ethiopia’s longtime prime minister Meles Zenawi ahead of Sunday’s state funeral.
Ethiopia will hold a state funeral on Sptember 2 for late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on Monday after 21 years in power.
Meles Zenawi has cancer, or a brain tumour, or Aids, or has been poisoned by his wife, Ethiopian dissident groups have speculated.
Minister of Public Service and Administration Roy Padayachie has died in Ethiopia, government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi said on Saturday.
If you are looking for God in Ethiopia, you won’t have to search too hard. He is everywhere, writes Mohammed Selman.
Human rights groups in Ethiopia are struggling to survive under a law that Amnesty International says is too vaguely worded and restrictive.
An offensive by Somalia’s Islamist al-Shabab fighters on Ethiopian troops has left many dead, as the country prepares to withdraw from the region.
The jailing of Swedish journalists in Ethiopia is forcing the two countries to reassess their past.
Election of new AU Commission chairperson ends in a stalemate.
A complex matrix of issues stymied Dlamini-Zuma’s bid for Africa’s top job.
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/ 29 January 2012
The African Union’s new chairman faced tough challenges as UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned that the Sudan crisis threatened regional security.
The AU is going to ratify a document
that could usher in a new age of democracy and accountability.
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/ 27 January 2012
An Ethopian judge has handed down prison sentences to journalists and politicians under the controversial anti-terrorism laws.
Sources say the same voter tactics will be adopted as were used against Muammar Gaddafi in order to get Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma elected to the AU.
The opportunities are there and leaders must work together to make them bear fruit.
The delayed reaction to last year’s drought crisis in East Africa exacerbated the heavy loss of lives.
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/ 18 January 2012
Four people, including two foreign tourists, have been kidnapped by gunmen, after an attack on a group in Ethopia’s Afar region.
A damning report says the poor organisation of the aid response to the East African drought contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
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/ 17 January 2012
Ethiopia has forced thousands of villagers from their land to make way for commercial farming developments, leaving people impoverished and hungry.
Centuries on, memories of Imam Ahmad Gragn still haunt Ethiopia and Somalia, echoing the bloody history that still ripples across the Horn of Africa.
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/ 27 December 2011
Sweden has sought the help of the US and European Union to secure the release of two of its journalists jailed in Somalia for supporting terrorism.
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/ 27 December 2011
An Ethiopian court has sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in jail for supporting terrorism and entering the country illegally.
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/ 7 December 2011
Two Swedish journalists on trial in Ethiopia have admitted contact with an outlawed rebel group but reject accusations they received weapons training.
Two Swedish journalists charged with terrorism in Ethiopia after being arrested in a battle between state troops and rebels will go on trial today.
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/ 14 October 2011
Hostile neighbours Ethiopia and Eritrea passed the bloodiest decade of war in 2000, with a tragedy that consumed about 80 000 lives.
Two Swedish journalists arrested in Ethiopia are to remain in detention until September 14 while a police probe continues, a judge has ordered.
Across the Horn of Africa, a fierce drought is forcing more than 10-million people to rely on emergency food aid, up from a forecast of six-million.