[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia received on Sunday 2.2 million Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccines allocated by the COVAX Facility in marking the start of the country's COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed today officially launched the construction of two road projects in Amhara Regional State worth over 5 billion Birr.

[DW] The conflict in Tigray, the northern region of Ethiopia, has mostly been unfolding under a media blackout since early November. Thousands of civilians have likely died as a result of the crisis.

[DW] The decision comes amid alarm over growing hunger among Tigray's 6 million population. Reports of a massacre in the historic town of Axum have also surfaced.

[ISS] With the rainy season approaching, tensions are once again rising among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the giant Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, just before it flows into Sudan.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The UN Security Council (UNSC) has dropped issuing a resolution calling for cessation of hostilities and respect for international humanitarian laws in Ethiopia's war- torn Tigray regional state after a second attempt ...

[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopians living in Rome, Italy, have rallied to support the Ethiopian government via condemning falsehood propaganda and external intervention in internal affairs .

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stressed the need to nurture the values of service in youth in order to expedite national transformation in Ethiopia.

[DW] Senior figures have urged Eritrea to leave the region, saying mass atrocities were being committed and millions of people could go hungry without assistance.

[Nation] Ethiopian authorities on Wednesday released a BBC reporter and several other media workers detained in the past few days by the military in the war-torn northern Tigray region.

[RFI] Eritrean forces shot dead hundreds of children and civilians in a November massacre in neighbouring Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region, according to the international organisation Human Rights Watch. This is the second report on Eritrean abuses t...

[HRW] Nairobi -- UN Should Urgently Investigate Atrocities by All Parties

[UN News] Given the persistent reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the UN rights chief on Thursday stressed the urgent need for an objective, independent assessment of the facts on the ground.

[ICRC] The ICRC's head of operations in Ethiopia, Jeremy England, spoke to UK parliamentarians today about the humanitarian situation in northern Ethiopia. In this article he sets out his main concerns and calls on all parties to protect civilians.

[OHCHR] Geneva -- "Deeply distressing reports of sexual and gender-based violence, extrajudicial killings, widespread destruction and looting of public and private property by all parties continue to be shared with us, as well as reports of continued...

[RFI] The UN Security Council is expected to discuss the ongoing conflict in the northern Tigray region on Thursday. But a sense of intransigence amongst African countries towards taking a stronger stance on Ethiopia has so far thwarted efforts to st...

[Nation] The United States has urged Kenya to take a leading role in ending atrocities reported in Ethiopia's Tigray region, suggesting the use of an independent investigation into claims of human rights violations.

[Nation] The Ethiopian government on Tuesday called on the United States to stop interfering with the country's internal affairs.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Addis Ababa -- "Many of my clients are sex workers. Usually, they don't talk freely about their job because it's a taboo. But when they come here, they tell their stories."

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Addis Ababa -- Thousands of female migrants returned to Ethiopia from the Gulf last year and some are risking violence and trafficking as sex workers

[Atlantic Council] Ethiopia is at war with itself--and the international community is struggling to respond. In nearly four months of fighting across Ethiopia's Tigray region, more than sixty thousand Tigrayan refugees have fled into neighboring Suda...

[Ethiopian Herald] What would the world look like without the existence of the media? Can you imagine it? What would the world look like without the radio, TV, newspapers and other media products? The importance of the media has been reiterated in in...

[Ethiopian Herald] The habitat of the wildlife in Ethiopia can be described as being badly degraded. This is due to serious threats from cattle that traverse the land, recurrent fire, shortage of seasonal water and unsustainable utilization of resour...

[Ethiopian Herald] According to the UN, sovereignty of any nation serves as the guiding principle of international relations. It promotes that the nations ought to be strong and independent as well as sovereign to promote security, prosperity, and pe...

[Ethiopian Herald] -Food distribution in Tigray reaches 3.8 million beneficiaries

[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia's modern political life is persistently portrayed in crisis toppling regimes and threatening country's survival as the past legacy had had unfit political repercussions.

[Ethiopian Herald] Civic society organizations have a lot of contribution in the endeavor made to build a democratic, transparent and accountable system. At the same time they play substantial role in ensuring that all pertinent stakeholders as well ...

[Ethiopian Herald] On Sunday, February 28, 2021, I sent an op-ed submission to the editor of The New York Times in response to the article Ethiopia's War Leads to Ethnic Cleansing in Tigray Region, U.S. Report says, along with the following note urgi...

[Ethiopian Herald] The current overall economic situation

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music-based entertainment company, announced today thatEthiopia Habtemariam, who has served as President of Motown since 2014, has been elevated to Chairman and CEO of t...