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.
Ethiopia and Kenya are buckling under the weight of the hundreds of thousands of refugees seeking relief from the drought ravaging the Horn of Africa.
India’s prime minister and dozens of business leaders began trade talks in Ethiopia as the Asian giant strives to catch up with China.
The most popular spots on the streets of Addis Ababa are around newspaper stands where people can rent a read for half an hour.
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/ 31 January 2011
Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo replaced Malawi’s leader as African Union chairperson on Sunday.
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/ 9 December 2010
Applying for a US Diversity Visa might be his way out of poverty. But it left <b>Mohammed Selman</b> feeling a little dirty
Under the shade of a Dambi tree overlooking the green fields of southern Ethiopia, Hussein Godana is giving a cookery lesson. Of sorts.
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/ 9 November 2010
Ethiopia’s Ogaden rebels said on Tuesday they had killed more than 200 soldiers in a string of successful military operations.
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/ 26 September 2010
While the land where the Nile originates is constantly ravaged by drought, downstream countries get the full benefit of its water.
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/ 7 September 2010
Floodwaters have displaced nearly 16 000 people in north-eastern Ethiopia, the United Nations said on Monday.
Somalia’s al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for deadly bombings in Uganda, should be "annihilated", Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says.
Ethiopia’s main opposition group on Tuesday filed a court case against the country’s electoral board for rejecting its demand to re-run elections.
US Vice-President Joe Biden was on Wednesday to focus on troubled Somalia after discussing the fate of the volatile region with Kenyan leaders.
Ethiopian opposition parties have rejected parliamentary elections which gave Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s ruling coalition a majority last week.
Observers say landslide victory by ruling party was achieved by threats, writes <b>Xan Rice</b>.
Thousands of supporters streamed into a square in Ethiopia’s capital on Tuesday to celebrate a peaceful election win for Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
Voters go to the polls in Ethiopia on Sunday with little doubt that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will stay in power.
Ethiopia on Wednesday denied claims by the nation’s main rebel group that it had captured an army garrison town and killed 94 soldiers.
Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia, last year’s runner-up, won the London Marathon for the first time on Sunday to end Kenya’s six-year grip on the race.
An explosion at a café in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray killed five people on Saturday and wounded 20 others.
Accusations of harassment and murder have led to tensions in Ethiopia between the ruling party and the opposition, a month ahead of the polls.
Biyansa Daba is the second government opponent killed in a month in Ethiopia as general election approaches.
The EU has launched its observer mission for elections in Ethiopia, which rights groups say have already been tainted by political repression.
At the foot of a towering gorge slicing through southern Ethiopia the Omo river suddenly disappears into a tunnel bored into the rockface.
Ethiopia’s government has been accused of waging a coordinated attack on rights activists, journalists and political opponents ahead of May elections.
US-funded broadcaster Voice of America’s local Amharic language service in Ethiopia will be blocked because it is destabilising the country.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said he is willing to meet Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki despite more than 10 years of bitter words.
The cure for many illnesses may lie hidden in South Africa’s plants, but do we have adequate legislation to safeguard our biodiversity from pillagers?
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/ 2 February 2010
Senegal’s president urged African leaders on Monday to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda’s North African branch.
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/ 1 February 2010
African Union (AU) heads of state focused on rising tensions in oil-rich, secessionist southern Sudan on Monday.
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/ 31 January 2010
UN chief Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday criticised power-grabs in Africa as Libya’s Moammar Gadaffi reluctantly handed over the presidency of the AU.
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/ 26 January 2010
Officials on Tuesday sought to determine why an Ethiopian airliner veered off course on take-off from Beirut before crashing at sea.