[VOA] Washington -- Case Against AP Journalist Reflects Dire Conditions for Ethiopia's Media

[DW] A convoy of aid trucks has entered Tigrayan-controlled Ethiopian territory for the first time in over three months. The UN food agency, the World Food Program, made the announcement on Twitter.

[Crisis Group] After Almost Seventeen Months of Devastating Civil War in Ethiopia, the Federal Government On 24 March Announced What It Called a Humanitarian Truce. the Offer Would Ostensibly Allow Aid Into Ethiopia's Northern Tigray Region, Which Ha...

[VOA] United Nations -- Ethiopia on Thursday failed to block the United Nations from funding an international committee that will investigate human rights violations by all parties in the nation's recent war.

[U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa] PRESS STATEMENT

[VOA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopian authorities and rebels in the Tigray region are accusing each other of blocking aid deliveries to Tigray that had been agreed to a week ago. The ongoing fighting comes as the U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia visited the Afar...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), Field Marshal Berhanu Jula, and his counterpart Chief of the Kenyan Defense Forces, General Robert Kariuki Kibochi, held talks in Nairobi on 30 March ...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Ethiopia's military chief Field marshal Birhanu Jula met his Kenyan counterpart General Robert Kibochi Wednesday, during which they discussed areas of mutual interest.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- State Council of the newly constituted 11th regional state, South West Ethiopian Peoples' Regional State, is holding its first regular meeting today in Bonga city, the region's communication bureau said.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Following an agreement between the Governments of Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), over 100,000 Ethiopian migrants are expected to be deported to Ethiopia from KSA, with the arrivals starting on 30 March...

[African Arguments] Addis Ababa has promised, and failed, to end the blockade before in moments of rising international pressure.

[DW] Aid convoys have yet to reach Ethiopia's war-ravaged Tigray region almost a week after the government announced a humanitarian truce.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Coronavirus lockdowns have contributed to "soaring rates" of sexual and gender-based violence across Africa, says a new report. And "almost all actors" in the continent's armed conflicts use sexual violence as a tactic of war...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A total of 498 - 157 children and 341 women - were flown out of Riyadh this morning as the first part of flight to repatriate Ethiopian nationals trapped in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The global finalist will be rewarded a $1 million prize, known as the Nobel Prize for students, for implementing their idea.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The speaker of the House of Federation (HoF), Agegnehu Teshager said that the house will respond to the demands of the Raya people related to administrative boundary and identity issues in accordance with the constitut...

[United States Senate] Washington, DC -- U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by SFRC Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee...

[The New Humanitarian] Semera -- Security threats are preventing aid groups from bringing relief supplies into Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, even as the government has declared a unilateral truce following 17 months of conflict with forces align...

[allAfrica] Johannesburg -- As we move into the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, we've also seen more openness about another global crisis. The rise in stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health illnesses has been dramatic during the loc...

[VOA] Winnemucca, Nevada -- Teff, an ancient grain native to the Horn of Africa, has found new enthusiasts in the United States. It's being cultivated in the American West and Midwest, where growers note its increasing appeal as a gluten-free "super ...

[The Conversation Africa] The human carnage and heritage destruction in Ethiopia's Tigray region that began in November 2020 has been devastating. Thousands have been killed, millions displaced and several historical monuments damaged by invading for...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said the repatriation Ethiopian nations trapped in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will resume as of Wednesday 30 March.

[RSF] With two journalists said to have "promoted terrorism" due to appear before an Addis Ababa court today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Ethiopian authorities to free all arbitrarily detained journalists and to stop bringing baseles...

[CFR] News of a truce in Ethiopia is welcome, but it far from guarantees an end to the Tigray conflict.

[The Conversation Africa] The effects of war on the mental wellbeing of people is given much less attention than the physical harms of conflict.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The French government provided World Food Program (WFP) Ethiopia office with three million Euros "as part of its programmed food assistance, the French Embassy in Addis Abeba said.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- In a meeting it held today, the Benishangul Gumuz Regional State Council has unanimously approved the renaming of Berta nation to Benishangul nation.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Geremu Gelebo, the head of the revenue bureau of surrounding districts of Segen woreda the Konso zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region was gunned down while dining in a hotel with his friends...

[African Arguments] Critics see the proposed talks as a cynical one-sided ploy. Genuinely representative dialogue would likely threaten Abiy's grip on power.

[Shabelle] The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Friday commended Ethiopia's warring parties for agreeing to a ceasefire.