[VOA] Addis Ababa -- U.S. and European Union special envoys for the Horn of Africa have called on Ethiopian authorities to restore basic services to the Tigray region in order to encourage peace talks with rebels. The envoys have just completed their...

[VOA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia now ranks with Eritrea as the biggest jailers of journalists in sub-Saharan Africa, a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists says.

[UN News] Three UN-appointed independent human rights experts returned from Ethiopia on Tuesday after working to negotiate access to areas important for investigations.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A delegation led by Major General Tesfaye Ayalew, head of deployment unit of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and coordinator of the temporary security command post in the Somali regional state is in Beledwe...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Special envoys of the U.S. and the E.U. said that they have received a letter from Tigray's Regional President Debretsion "to be passed to the Government of Ethiopia providing security guarantees for those who need to ...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The three members of the UN International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia "reiterated its requests for access to areas relevant for its investigation".

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Debretsion Gebremichael (PhD), President of Tigray regional states has "received and held productive talks" with U.S. Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa Mike Hammer, European Union Special Representative for the Horn ...

[CPJ] Ethiopia's 21-month-old civil war is accelerating the deterioration of press freedom in the Horn of Africa nation. The conflict between the federal government and the rebel forces led by the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front (TPLF) has prompted ...

[CPJ] Nairobi -- Ethiopian authorities should release journalist Temesgen Desalegn immediately and drop all charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday.

[ISS] The country has a window of opportunity to improve its transitional justice approach, which has been disjointed and ineffective.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Annette Weber, European Union (EU) Special Representative for the Horn of Africa, said she will travel to Mekelle, the capital of Tigray regional state, to support :the efforts of the AU Mediation."

[VOA] At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured Friday when al-Shabab extremists attacked a town that sits on the Somali side of the border with Ethiopia, according to witnesses and officials.

[VOA] Mogadishu -- A local Somali official has welcomed a plan by Ethiopia's Somali state to create a buffer zone along the border inside Somalia to fight militant group al-Shabab. The plan was announced Thursday, a week after hundreds of Somali mili...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The chairmen of two Oromo opposition parties, namely the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) and Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Professor Marara Gudina and Dawud Ibsa, met with ambassador Mike Hammer, U.S. envoy to the Horn...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Addis Abeba City Administration has signed an agreement with the Italian company WeBuild, formerly Salini Impregilo, for an amount of US$11 million loan secured from the World Bank to help carry out the maintenance...

[VOA] Erebti -- As conflict in northern Ethiopia spreads into the Afar region amid lingering drought, some residents are appealing for help, saying they have nothing to eat and that their children are dying. Reporter Henry Wilkins spoke to locals in ...

[ISS] With Russia's foreign minister and France's president in Africa this week, propaganda around the Ukraine war is intensifying.

[CFR] High level visits should signal commitment, not just competition.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Local authorities confirmed to media that at least 12 people have died of hunger in drought ravaged Guji zone of the Oromia regional state. Community members however have put the number at 20.

[Addis Standard] Addis Ababa -- The head of the Oromia regional state Communications Bureau, Hailu Adugna, told local media that due to "actions being taken against armed groups" in Oromia, the militant group operating in the region has been "very we...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- State run news agency quoted Mustafe Omer, President of Somali Regional State, on 28 July as saying that the Al-Shabaab terrorist group that infiltrated through the Somali regional state in Eastern Ethiopia, has been d...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Legendary athlete Derartu Tullu, President of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation, has pleaded with the government to remove the blockade that disconnected Tigray-born gold medal winning athletes from reaching their par...

[VOA] Washington -- A concerted push by al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab to expand from Somalia into Ethiopia appears to have been "largely contained," according to a senior U.S. military official, though he cautioned that the terror group was likely planni...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya Power Company has signed a Power Purchase Agreement with Ethiopian Electric Power to actualize power trade from November 1.

[Shabelle] The Ethiopian government on Wednesday disclosed that more than 209 al-Shabab fighters have been killed after a failed incursion from neighboring Somalia by the militant group.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- In an extraordinary win in its history of athletics, Ethiopia bagged a total of 10 medals, including four gold, four bronze, and two silver at the 18th World Athletics Championship of Eugene, in Oregon, USA. This put E...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The federal government communication service released a brief statement yesterday about the state of Al-Shabaab's incursion into Ethiopia and said that government forces have continued engaging Al-Shabaab militants at ...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- In an extraordinary win in its history of athletics, Ethiopia bagged a total of 10 medals, including four gold, four bronze, and two silver at the 18th World Athletics Championship of Eugene, in Oregon, USA. This put E...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Prime Minister's National Security Adviser, Ambassador Redwan Hussain, said that the Federal Government "is ready to talks anytime, anywhere," and that "talks should begin without preconditions." The Ambassador sai...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Athletics has been one of the top global events that made Ethiopia recognized through its world-class athletes; since the Olympic gold medalist Abebe Bikila won his and Africa's first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olym...