Yahoo

Ethiopia’s Amhara people are being portrayed as the enemy: the dangerous history of ethnic politics

The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency on 4 August 2023 and sent the military into the Amhara region to engage the Fano, a local armed militia. Some suggested that Ethiopia risked ...
Yahoo

Ethiopia crisis raises new fears as civil war shows no signs of abating

More than a year into a bloody civil war in Ethiopia that has already claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced upwards of 2 million people, experts fear the worst is yet ahead. With the ...

Ethiopia embraces big projects but escalates regional tensions by seeking more access to the sea

Ethiopia’s prime minister loves big projects. With a contentious megadam completed on the Nile, Abiy Ahmed is now planning ...
CounterPunch

Renewed TPLF Terror War Against the Ethiopian People

After a fragile ceasefire lasting just five months, the TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) have once again initiated violent conflict with federal forces in Northern Ethiopia. They started the ...
International Rescue Committee

Crisis in Ethiopia: What you need to know and how to help

Ethiopia ranks on the IRC’s 2024 Emergency Watchlist as drought-stricken communities face the twin threats of conflict and the likelihood of El Niño-induced flooding. Although the ceasefire between ...
Homeland Security Today

PERSPECTIVE: Abiy Ahmed’s Destabilization of Ethiopia

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 18, 2020. (State Department photo by Ron Przysucha) Ethiopia is in serious ...
The Hill

YouTube’s silencing of Ethiopian journalists aids authoritarianism

With over 120 million people, Ethiopia is Africa’s second most populous country and one of the world’s oldest civilizations. Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, it carries immense ...
The Reporter

Farewell reflections: Leaving Ethiopia, Carrying its People With Me

As my inaugural posting on the African continent, when my family and I first touched down in Addis Ababa in 2021, there was a steep learning curve ahead—one ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

For Ethiopian Israeli Pnina Agenyahu, celebrating diversity is about speaking up and representing

In the United States, Blacks were brought to American shores by slavery. But in Israel, Blacks came by choice because they’re part of the Jewish people, notes Ethiopian-born Agenyahu. As director of ...
CNN

Ethiopia’s leader said he would bury his enemy. His spokeswoman doesn’t think it was incitement to violence

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged to bury his government’s enemies “with our blood” last week, in an inflammatory speech marking the one-year anniversary of the war in the country’s northern ...
Colorado Public Radio

Colorado’s growing Ethiopian and Indian communities hope to broaden clientele with upcoming food festivals in Denver, Colorado Springs

At the tables of the Ethiopian restaurants lining Colfax Avenue in Denver, diners pile misir wat, a lentil stew, onto sourdough flatbread, called injera, and slide the combination into their mouths. A ...
The Africa Report

Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s largest, and most contentious, dam

Ethiopia has officially opened the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a megaproject under construction for over a decade and a half, and is Africa’s largest hydroelectric power station. A hulking ...