[Daily Maverick] On 4 April 2021, African Union chairperson Félix Tshisekedi hosted talks with Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to provide much-needed AU leadership in de-escalating the impending conflict in the Horn of Africa.

[East African] Lessons from African history show us that when statesmen endeavour to solve national or interstate challenges, they often succeed. But they can also fail. This duality of outcomes best fits summit negotiations and mediation efforts for...

[USAID] The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is airlifting 1,500 rolls of heavy-duty plastic sheeting-- to contribute to emergency shelter efforts for more than 82,500 people affected by the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray regi...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Harari Regional State Council (Cabinet) convened an emergency meeting on April 11, following a decision by the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) to invalidate the voting practices by members of the Harari...

[Reporter] A huge stockpile of outdated explosive chemicals in Addis Ababa has the capacity of annihilating the capital, the Public Procurement and Property Administration Agency announced.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Accounts of the magnitude and scale of the violence that wreaked havoc in Oromo Special Zone and North Shewa Zone in the Amhara regional state are surfacing, depicting an image of a violence that inflicted heavy casual...

[ENA] Ethiopia after a project's successful achievement of reducing deforestation and polluting gases in Bale and West Oromia, gained over 149 million birr from carbon trading sold through REDD+.

[Nation] If there is a lesson to be learnt from the invasion of Ethipia's Tigray region by Eritrean troops, it is that rogue regimes need more engagement than isolation. The international community is good at turning its back on countries it deems ro...

[ENA] Ethiopian Ambassador to Sudan, Yibeltal Aemro on Sunday discussed with Sudan's Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Sharif Abdallah.

[Egypt Online] Egypt has rejected an Ethiopian proposal calling for forming a mechanism for exchanging data on measures of the second phase of filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which Addis Ababa plans to carry out in the coming rain...

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- South Sudan's decision to ratify the Comprehensive Framework Agreement (CFA) is a major breakthrough for the treaty to enter into force and bring all stakeholders in the Nile basin to decide future development in the basin with a...

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Sudan and Egypt are deliberately prolonging the trilateral negotiations in order to delay the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), experts revealed.

[Daily Trust] Two Kenyans, Emmanuel Naibei and Meseret Dinke, have emerged as the winners of the 2021 edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon in the men and women categories.

[MSF] Thousands of asylum seekers from South Sudan have been stuck for months in appalling conditions in a reception centre in Gambella region, western Ethiopia. People are without meaningful access to essential services, especially food. Médecins S...

[DW] The US said "large-scale assistance is urgently needed" in order to prevent the humanitarian situation in Tigray from worsening. The area has seen a violent conflict for several months.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A high-level delegation led by the Presidents of the Afar and Somali Regional States, Awol Arba and Mustefa Omer, respectively, convened a consultative meeting on April 08 chaired by Muferihat Kamil, Minister of Peace.

[East African] The stalemate between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile waters has made it difficult to resolve a simmering dispute over a dam built by Addis Ababa.

[Egypt Online] Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli reviewed on Thursday 8/4/2021 with Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel Ati the latest developments of many files, including the outcome of negotiations that were held in Congo's Kinsha...

[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum / Abyei -- Sudan has demanded that the United Nations to replace the Ethiopian soldiers deployed in the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in the disputed Abyei* region on the Sudan-South Sudan border with other sol...

[UN News] The humanitarian situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, remains "dire", the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said on Wednesday.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Communication affairs bureau of Amaro Wereda, one of the Weredas in Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Regional State (SNNPRS), said sustained attacks since last week by armed groups left at least 12 civilian...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A year after Ethiopia recorded its first case of Covid-19, the virus is spreading at an alarming rate. The number of people entering the intensive care unit (ICU) and the number of deaths have increased in the last cou...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Reports of renewed bouts of violence along the border areas between Afar and Somali regional states kept flooding social media since the weeknd when first violence was reported. According to Ahmed Humed, the deputy pol...

[ENA] Ethiopia is keen to reinforce the African Union (AU)- led tripartite negotiation on the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) as the union is the best platform for resolving the dispute, according to Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy.

[RFI] Famine is looming in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region as military operations specifically target food systems with systematic looting and pillaging of food and farms forming part of efforts to use hunger as a weapon of war, according to a new ...

[DW] Sudan and Egypt have grown increasingly concerned by Ethiopia's stance during negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The gravity dam on the Nile has been under construction since 2011.

[Namibian] ALLEGED child killer Kristofina Amutenya says she has not been given any justifiable reason for being detained in Namibia after she was returned to the country from Ethiopia, where she is claimed to have killed her two children in December...

[ICRC] Almost five months after the beginning of the fighting in Tigray, people continue to flee their homes in search of safety. Every day, newly displaced people arrive to the main towns, where they stay with the host communities or in improvised s...

[Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia] Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- The Foreign and Water Affairs Ministers of Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan had a meeting in Kinshasa to resume the trilateral negotiation on the Grand Ethiopian Renais...

[Egypt Online] Kinshasa-hosted talks gathering Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan on Addis Ababa's disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), held over the past two days, did not achieve any progress or reach an agreement on relaunching the negotiation...