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Ethiopia is due to hold elections in 2026. But will they be free and fair? Since 1995, Ethiopia has held elections every five years, except for the 2021 election, delayed by COVID-19. The incumbent ...
A loose collection of rebel groups is challenging Ethiopia’s military in one of the country’s most populous and powerful ...
Internal power struggles within the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a regional party that once dominated Ethiopian politics, have only deepened instability. One faction in the group has ...
Ethiopia is in the grip of a civil war between federal government forces and the Fano, a loose alliance of ethnic-based militia in the Amhara region.
On 2 November 2022, the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front signed a peace deal in South Africa, the Pretoria agreement. More than two years later, however, Tigray still ...
Ethiopia—A political crisis in Ethiopia’s war-battered Tigray escalated dramatically in March, bringing armed men out onto the streets and raising fears of a fresh conflict in the still ...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia ’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday asked people in the northern Tigray region to nominate a new leader in the latest move by the federal government ...
Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says he ... There have been accusations that Eritrea is interfering in the region's internal political divisions. Last Thursday, Tigray's Interim President ...
Rivalries among Tigrayan political leaders threaten to derail the process of reintegrating Tigray into Ethiopia's federal structure and could rapidly escalate into a wider conflict involving ...
MINSK, 13 April (BelTA) - Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov held negotiations with Ethiopia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Gedion Timotheos on 13 April during his official ...
Ethiopia ’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday asked people in the northern Tigray region to nominate a new leader in the latest move by the federal government to defuse political ...