[VOA] Nairobi -- Some 23,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat arrived in Djibouti by ship late last month. Now, trucks have delivered a portion of that wheat to the World Food Program's main warehouse in Ethiopia, where food aid is desperately needed.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia (MoFA) on Wednesday 07 August distanced Ethiopia from news coverage the previous day by "Etv World", one of the programs under the banner of state-owned, Ethiopian Broadcasti...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Commenting for the second time on Ethiopia's renewed militarized hostilities between the Ethiopian federal army and Tigrayan forces, members of the U.N. appointed International Commission of Human Rights Experts said t...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- After being blocked by security forces from meeting the media, a group of 35 local civil society organizations issued a joint statement calling for peace in Ethiopia, where the resumption of militarized hostilities bet...

[Crisis Group] Renewed fighting between a federal-Amhara-Eritrea coalition and Tigray's forces has shattered a tenuous months-long truce. The reversal heralds a return to one of the world's deadliest conflicts. International envoys should keep pressi...

[Shabelle] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia rejected a bombshell report by its eTV on Wednesday that touches on the historic relationship with Somalia.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Scientists have identified a new species of long-extinct otter in Ethiopia that was the size of a modern lion. Weighing an estimated 200 kilograms, or 440 pounds, it is the largest otter ever described; it would have r...

[UNFPA] Gondar, Amhara Region -- "I can't afford to buy sanitary pads. If I get some income, it's for my son. It means a lot to me after losing everything," says Emebet Mengessha who lives with her 7-month-old son, Bereket, in an informal settlement ...

[263Chat] In sub-Saharan countries 490 million children in 35 sub-Saharan countries are at risk from the worst impacts of climate change, and at least 11 million children across the continent face food insecurity due to extreme weather events includi...

[Agenzia Fides] Addis Ababa -- The atrocious conflict underway in Tigray continues in the worst ways. After a brief respite, the fighting resumed on August 24, and is expanding rapidly. There is news of the involvement of a new terrorist group linked...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ethiopia's Ministry of Finance has accepted research-backed appeal by the Addis Abeba Women, Children and Social Affairs Bureau to allocate permanent government budget to provide hygienic and affordable menstrual pads ...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- People In Need (PIN), a non-governmental, non-profit organization, launched a water development project with support from the European Union's Humanitarian Aid department. "So far, more than 8,300 inhabitants have bene...

[Dabanga] Khartoum / Kassala -- Sudanese authorities announced on Tuesday the deployment of 'huge military reinforcements' to Hamdayet in Kassala, as clashes intensify between the Ethiopian army and opposition Tigrayan Front forces near Sudan's easte...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The National Dialogue (ND) has become popular for conflict transformation, lest it may be manipulated to consolidate the power of a ruling party. For a country like Ethiopia, where the legitimacy of the state has been ...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) released a new report confirming that more than 60 people from the Oromo community were massacred in Western Oromia during the course of two days attack by armed men who gat...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Demeke Mekonnen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, called on all the Nile Basin riparian states to "expedite the coming into force of" the Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA). The CFA...

[Agenzia Fides] Addis Ababa -- "Wheat, multivitamins, cooking oil, noodles, rice and salt are some of the relief items sent to the people of Tigray. From May to July, hygiene items, soap and 400 blankets were also sent". The news was reported to Fide...

[Agenzia Fides] Cairo -- The Coptic Church and the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia continue to put their ties of ecclesial communion at the service of the ongoing political negotiations between Egypt and Ethiopia on the controversial "Renaissance Dam", k...

[VOA] Bahir Dar, Ethiopia -- U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Mike Hammer returned to Ethiopia, 12 days after fighting resumed between federal forces and Tigrayan rebels, breaking a monthslong cease-fire. The renewed clashes have quashed hop...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The U.S. said it "condemn[s] Eritrea's reentry" into Ethiopia's renewed militarized hostilities between the federal defense forces and Tigrayan forces which started on 24 April and has now extended to Ethiopia's border...

[The Conversation Africa] Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He presided over the end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States as well as the dissolution of the union of socialist r...

[Agenzia Fides] Addis Ababa -- The bloody war that has been raging in the country since November 2020 is leading to the destruction of national wealth and economic depression. In this context, the Ethiopian Catholic Church does not fail to express it...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- In what survivors have described as an "undiscriminating attack" carried out on Tuesday 30 August, dozens of civilians were killed in Agamsa town, Amuru district, Horro Guduru Wollaga zone, eye witnesses who spoke to A...

[Dabanga] Basunda -- Around 80 refugees from Ethiopia crossed into Basunda in El Gedaref, following days of violent clashes between the Ethiopian army and the opposition Tigrayan Front forces near the Sudanese-Ethiopian border.

[UNECA] Addis Ababa -- United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Vera Songwe, has stepped down, effective 1 September 2022, after five years of dedicated service to ECA and its Member...

[State Department] Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa (SEHOA) Mike Hammer will travel to Ethiopia and the region September 4-15. He will press for an immediate cessation of hostilities and the start of peace talks.

[HRW] To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland)

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Following an on-sight assessment by a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Influenza Laboratory of the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) has been recognized as a World Health Or...

[VOA] White House -- The White House has condemned last week's resumption of conflict that threatens to fuel famine and destabilize the Horn of Africa, following the collapse of the five-month cease-fire in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region.

[VOA] Gambella, Ethiopia -- In Ethiopia's Gambella region, a June attack on the capital by rebels has raised fears of more civil war spreading in the country.