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France and Germany are sending next week their Foreign Ministers to Ethiopia to consolidate the peace agreement signed early November between Addis Abba and Tigrayan rebels. The announcement was made by French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna Thursday. “I will be going next week with my colleague and friend Annalena Baerbock to Africa, to Ethiopia,” Colonna […]
African Union and East African officials arrived in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Thursday (29 December) to launch a joint monitoring and verification mechanism for a peace deal signed in November to end the two-year war. The mediating team, led by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, as well as African Union […]
A high-level delegation from the Ethiopian federal government was on its way this Monday (December 26) to the capital of the rebel-held northern region of Tigray to oversee the implementation of last month’s peace deal designed to end over two years of conflict. In November, the Ethiopian federal government and Tigrayan forces signed the peace […]
Two Ethiopians have filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, over hate speech accusing the US tech giant of enabling violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia to flourish on Facebook, inflaming the country’s bloody civil war in Tigray region. Filed in Kenya, home to the platform’s content moderation operations related to Ethiopia, the lawsuit […]
The capital of the Tigray region has been reconnected to Ethiopia’s national power grid after more than a year cut off due to the war in this northern region of Ethiopia. The announcement by the national electricity company comes just over a month after the signing of a peace agreement between the Tigrayan rebels and […]
A convoy carrying medical supplies arrived Tuesday (15 November) in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the first shipment of international aid to reach the region following a cease-fire and a peace deal agreed by the country’s federal government and Tigrayan forces earlier this month. “The first ICRC medical supplies have just arrived in Mekele […]
Launched in 2019 by the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and its partners, the Desert to Power initiative to increase solar generation capacity to provide 250 million people with electricity access across Africa’s Sahel region for socio-economic development continues to attract financial support from around the world. The Desert to Power initiative is designed to […]
Ethiopia’s government and Tigray regional representatives began a new round of talks Monday (7 November) to work out military and other details of last week’s signing of a “permanent” cessation of hostilities in a two-year conflict thought to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. Last week, the federal government and Tigray regional forces agreed […]
Ethiopia’s announcement of a cessation of hostilities between the government and the rebels in Tigray after over a week of negotiations led by the African Union in Pretoria, South Africa has been hailed by the United Nations as “a very welcome first step“ and as a “major breakthrough“ by Washington, while other world leaders are […]
Ethiopia has awarded a Pan-African prize to late King Hassan II of Morocco in recognition of his contributions to the establishment of the African Union and his dedication to the emancipation of Africa and to Pan-Africanism. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed presented the award to the speaker of the Moroccan House of Representative on Tuesday […]